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CHARLES HALI.OCK AT 72. 



THE HALLOCKHOLYOKE PEDIGREE 



A N I » 



COLLATERAL BRANCHES 



IN THE UNITED STATES 



Being a Revision oi rm. Hal lock Ancestry of 1866 

PREPARED BV R.EV. Wm. A. HALLOCK, I). I)., 

Willi 

ADDITIONS AND L*RACINGS OF I \ M I l.\ GENEALOGIES TO THE 

PRESEN1 DATE AND GENERATION 



By CHARLES HALLOCK, M. A. 



50 CENTS A COPY. 



AMHERST, iMASS : 

JJrpaa nf (Carpenter & fflureljouae, 

1906. 



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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

OCT 12 1906 

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Copyright, 1906, 
by CHARLES HALLOCK. 



VALUE OF PEDIGREE. 



" The knowledge that one is descended from a line of ancestors 
who have ascended to their God eminent for their intelligence, in- 
tegrity, and piety, can but lead a person to respect himself, and to 
determine not to dishonor in his own life the unspotted succession to 
which he belongs of men great in their goodness. I care not for dis- 
tinctions founded upon wealth, office, or title." 

Henry A. Homes. 
State Library, Albany t N. J'., 1S63. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Chaptei I. The Hegira of the Dissenters i 

II. II. ill. m k-Holyoke 9 

" III. Inherited Longevity 39 

" l\'. Hallock Revolutionary Record, 41 

" V. May hew Genealogy 45 

VI. The Alden-Allen Pedigree, 50 

VII. Norton-Allen Pedigree, 61 

" VIII. Hallock-Corwin Connection, 62 

IX. The Allen-Coffin Pedigree, ........ 64 

" X. The Homes Pedigree, 67 

" XI. Allen-Hutler-Hawks Pedigree, 71 

" XII. The Hallock-Hayden Lineage, 75 

XIII. The Starbuck Pedigree, 77 

Annotation, 80 

Apostrophe, 84 



(HA PTER I. 



HEGIRA OF THE DISSENTERS. 



That was .1 tough period in Oliver Cromwell's time! The chroni- 
cler recites that the great reformer came to the active front without 
much ado or apparent predestination. " From the date of his birth 
on a farm in Huntingdonshire to his first election to Parliament, in 
his 30th vear, his life was almost uneventful, barring his marriage at 
the Church of St. Ciles, on Aug. 22, 1620, which the parish register 
attests. For a moment, it is true, his voice was heard in the historic 
drama of those distracting times. Still there could be no prevision of 
the part he was to play. In a few months thereafter the King dis- 
missed the people's representatives, and Cromwell went back to rural 
obscurity. Next we find him resolved to flee from the tyranny which 
he was destined, later, to crush." So the record runs. "The court party 
was bringing every engine of political and religious persecution to 
bear upon those who dared oppose it. The jails were full, the stocks 
in constant use. Yeoman and gentry were making their way to Hol- 
land, and thence to America, in search of liberty of life and con- 
science, fleeing from crass ritualism. On the morning of the 1st of 
May, 1637, there occurred one of those little incidents that pass 
almost unnoticed and unrecorded at the time, but prove afterward to 
have been the turning points of history. Eight emigrant ships lay in 
the Thames, ready to sail. On shore was a gathering of pilgrims who 
had said farewell to their native land and taken passage for a freer 
one beyond the sea. Oliver Cromwell was one of them ; his famous 
2 



cousin, John Hampden, was another. But as they came down to the 
wharf that morning their way was barred by soldiers. They might 
not sail. The king had issued a " royal ordinance,' 1 forbidding his 
subjects to leave England. Resistance was useless. Cromwell stayed, 
and with him, as Macaulay says, stayed the evil genius of the House 
of Stuart." 

This is the legend as currently stated, though not universally ac- 
cepted, as a true statement of facts. The pros and cons are fully set 
forth in various published references by French and English annal- 
ists. 1 For these I am indebted to the intelligent researches and in- 
defatigable perseverance of Mr. T. W. Osborn, of the University 
club, New York, and his nephew, Thomas C. Horton. The latter 
states that the lists which he found in the Historical Collections were 
very recently discovered by a clergyman in England among some 
ancient records which were about to be destroyed. So he caused 
them to be sent to the Massachusetts Historical Society. But for 
this fortuitous event, the res gestae of this crucial period would 
have been without authentic proof. Quoting from " England Under 
the Stuarts," London, 1882, Vol. II, p. 251 : 

" The fact is well known that Cromwell was once on the point of 
quitting England forever. To the non-conformist, the enemy of con- 
trol, and the discontented of all classes, America at this period offered 
a vast field of unrestraint, and no indifferent means of subsistence. 
Many Puritans, and others, had already flocked there, and it was un- 
doubtedly the policy of Charles to encourage such migration. The 
story is well known that at one time the government detained eight 
ships in the river, on board of which were Sir Arthur Hazelrig, Rich, 
Hampden, Pym, and Oliver Cromwell." 

Although the truth of this story has been discussed there can be no 
doubt of Cromwell having at least on one occasion contemplated quit- 
ting England, for the recital goes on to say that " in 1641, when the 
grand remonstrance of the Commons against the general grievances 
of the nation was carried at 3 o'clock in the morning by a majority of 

1 Appleton's Am. Cyclopedia, 1879, Vol. V. Title, " Commerce," p. 501. 
Grande Dictionaire Universalle, Tome 5, p. 580. Title, " Cromwell." 
Nouvelle Biographic Generale, Paris, 1866, Vol. 12, p. $07. 



only nine,*' we find Cromwell, on the House breaking up, confiding to 
Falkland what had previously been his intentions. " If that remon- 
strance had not passed," he said, " he would have sold all he had the 
next morning and never have seen England more " ; and he added 
that " he knew many other honest men of the same resolution." 
(( Tomwelliana, p. 2.) 

Furthermore, from Lord Nugent's " Memorials of John Hampden, 
his Party and Times," p. 116, we have it that 

' The spirit of emigration spread daily among the Puritans. The views of the 
greater number of that part] were entirely directed to that object; thus leaving 
their leaders without any further duties to fulfill in England. But even this refuge 
from a persecution which appeared irresistible, and from which there remained no 
other means oi escape, was refused them. 1 

" This project, which would have relieved the government from the embarrass- 
ment of their presence, and of all their further plans, was defeated by an order of 
tin- kin;.; in council, dated April 6, 1 1 which all masters and owners of ships 

were restrained from setting forth ;iny vessel with passengers for America without 
spec i.il li> en 

"The Immediate effect ol this monstrous edict is rendered remarkable by an event 
which has thrown ovei the whole a strange air of fatality. Eight ships, with re- 
spectable emigrants on board, were at this time lying in the Thames, bound for the 
new colony. In one of these had actually embarked for their voyage across the At- 
lantic, two no less considerable persons than John Hampden 3 and his kinsman, 
( Hivet Cromwell, the latter then little distinguished, except for an opposition which 
he conducted with great spirit and ability in his native county of Huntingdon, 
against the project of the Bedford Level, a work which, like all the other great 
schemes of improvement, had been converted into a monopoly which was to give 
new means of influence to the Crown. But the Court was unwilling that its oppo- 
nents should anywhere enjoy or communicate the systems of freedom which they 
taught, or should peacefully withdraw themselves, even at the hazard of the total 
confiscation of their estates at home, from a control of whose success they despaired 
and from a country which they deemed to be hopelessly enslaved. 

'" A special order was therefore issued that these vessels by name should be de- 
tained, and the provisions landed which had been shipped for the voyage. 4 

1 Rushworth.— Neale's History of the Puritans. 
Bancroft [Richard Bancroft, D. D,, Archbishop of Canterbury, born 1544, 
died 1610], in his early persecution of the Puritans, under James, seeing that great 
numbers of them were emigrating to Virginia, obtained a proclamation enjoining 
them not to depart without the King's license. 

3 Hampden had purchased lands in Virginia through an agent five years pre- 
viously, and was going out to prove them. — C. Hallock. 

* Neale's History of the Puritans.— Rushworth.— Dugdale's Troubles. 



"Thus, in the alternative between flight and resistance, the government, as it 
were, bound down these eminent men to an opposite condition to that which they 
had chosen for themselves. Pride, character and obligation to party and to princi- 
ple pledged them, so long as they should inhabit the country of their birth, to pur- 
sue the course they had begun. Hampden and Cromwell remained; to act, proba- 
bly with very different views, certainly in very different circumstances ; the one to 
be the first mover of resistance in arms to the King : the other to finally defeat and 
ruin the power in the held, to overthrow the monarchy, and to bring the Sovereign, 
by whom he was now so arbitrarily detained, to a public scaffold. 1 

Quoting from Dr. W. A. Hallock's booklet, " The Hallock Ances- 
try, 1 ' published 1866, by Am. Tract Society : 

" In 1634 ... at Yarmouth, England, Rev. John Youngs and 
Joan, his wife, of St. Margarets, Suffolk, were forbidden passage to 
New England. [History Puritans, Mass. Hist. Coll., Vol. iv, p. 101.] 
Mr. Youngs was soon after settled at Hingham, in Norfolk county, 
adjoining Suffolk, 100 miles northeast of London, and six years later, 
on Oct. 21, 1640, in the New World he gathered his church anew un- 
der the auspices of Rev. John Davenport' 2 , minister, and Theophilus 
Eaton, governor of the New Haven colony, which had just been 
planted, April 18, 1638, under a branching oak [holy-oak], a virtual 
theocracy, the Bible their code of laws, ecclesiastical and civil." 
[Trumbull's Hist, of Conn.] 

" In the same autumn Rev. Mr. Youngs and his church took up their 
abode in Southold, then comprising the whole northeastern.branch of 
Long Island, landing at the harbor of what is now Southold village, 
on the Peconic Bay, where as a church or town they retained their 
connection with the New Haven colony till 1662, and with Connecti- 
cut twelve years longer, till 1674. Rev. Mr. Youngs here continued 
his ministry thirty-two years, and died Feb. 24, 1672, aged 74, as by 

1 This alleged incident has been shown to rest on no reliable authority. (See 
Mr. Forster's " Statesmen of the Commonwealth," Vol. ii, p. Si.) But against the 
passage in the text Lord Nugent affixed no mark for modification or erasure, and it 
is therefore left as first written. 

" Mr. Hume avers that Hampden and the rest were for going to New England for 
the privilege of hearing sermons seven hours long." 

2 Up to the year 1841, his great grandson, John Davenport, aged 86, and his son 
John were living at New Haven, on the very site where the original colony landed, 
together with a married widowed daughter named Walker, and her son, Aldace 
Walker. The old man was a soap maker, and boiled bones on his premises. 



his tombstone. The twelve men, with members of their families, who 
constituted his church were Wm. Wells, Barnabus Horton, and John 
Conklin (whose graves are near that of their pastor), Peter Hallock, 
John Tuthill, Richard Terry, Thomas Mapes, Matthias Corwin, Rob- 
ert Akerly Jacob Corey, Isaac Arnold, and John Budd, the first white 
settlers in that part of the island. 

"Peter 1 [attack's great great granddaughter, Elizabeth Hallock, born 
1732, who died at < >ld Aquebogue, Feb. 12, 1S31, aged 98, wife of Silas 
Corwin, gave to her granddaughters, Mrs. James Hallock, now of 
Quogue, and Mrs. Rev. JamesT. Hamlin of Mattituck, Mr. Jonathan 
G. Horton, and others now Living, the following facts, which are con- 
firmed by multiplied records and memorials: That Peter Hallock 
was the first of the thirteen who adventured to step on shore among the 
Indians at Southold, that part of the village being still called"Hal- 
lock's Neck." and the beach extruding from it, " Hallock's Beach," of 
which beach Mr. Horton (who lives in the first frame house erected 
at Southold by his ancestor. Barnabas Horton) is one of the joint 
owners: that Peter Hallock purchased from the Indians the tract 
since called Oyster Ponds, now Orient, the eastern end of this branch 
of the island (see Thompson's History of Long Island) ; that he then 
returned to England for his wife, who when he married her was a 
widow and had a son by her former husband, Mr. Howell; that he 
promised her that, if she now accompanied him, her son should share 
with his in his property: that on coming back he found the Indians 
had resold what is now Orient ; that he then purchased about ten 
miles west of Southold village a farm extending from Long Island 
Sound on the north to Peconic bay on the south (three miles), on 
which he settled in Aquebogue, about two miles west of Mattituck 
village and creek. 

" His original homestead on Long Island and that of his wife's son, 
Howell, were on adjacent lots, and are still occupied (1866) by their 
respective descendants, Benjamin Laurens Hallock and Sylvester 
Howell. On the smith part of the purchase are the farms of Col. 
Micah W. and Dea. Ezra Hallock, great grandsons of Zerubabel Hal- 
lock, who was a great grandson of Peter. Numerous other families 
of Hallocks, most of them prosperous farmers, reside on or near this 
purchase by Peter Hallock, but of the burial place of either himself 



or his only son William, or his grandsons Thomas and Peter, who in- 
herited the same premises, they have no knowledge. John Hallock, 
ist and 2d, in Setauket, doubtless lie buried in a small Quaker 
ground adjoining the main graveyard, their names distinguished only 
by " J. H." on small stones scarcely rising above the surface. In the 
Mattituck graveyard rest the bodies of Zerubabel Hallock and many 
of his descendants, and of Gen. H. \V. Halleck's great-great, and 
great-grandfathers Peter Jr. and Major Peter. 

" Of many unexpected coincidences confirming facts in the ancestry, 
a singular one corroborates the evidence that Joshua Hallock of 
Moriches was the son of William, whose will was proved 1736. Mr. 
William Hallock, aged So, living near Moriches, says his grandfather, 
Zebulon, and this Joshua were brothers, and relates that their father, 
William of Southold, (unhappily) had possession of two very smart 
colored men, Jack and Brister ; that he gave Jack to his son Zebulon, 
and Brister to his son Joshua in Moriches, with striking anecdotes of 
Brister's energy and kindness well known in Moriches. This Joshua 
moved to Orange county, N. Y., near Chester church, of which his 
son Jonathan was a founder and an officer. In the records of that 
church were found Lewis Hallock and two female Hallocks, "colored," 
doubtless the children of this same Brister. 

" The marriage of William Hallock, of Stony Brook, to Sarah Sax- 
ton, of Huntington, was truly romantic. A young man of uncommon 
strength and beauty, he had been assisting Mr. Saxton in the labors 
of the farm for some months, when the parents were alarmed at ap- 
parent partialities between him and their daughter, which they in all 
proper ways discouraged. At length on a bright morning the young 
people were missing, as were also two horses and saddles. Mr. Sax- 
ton followed them with speed across the New York ferries, and to 
friends in New Jersey, and reached them just after the marriage con- 
tract had been solemnized. " I see I'm too late," said he ; " now 
come home, and we will all welcome you." The connection was a 
happy one. They were the parents of twelve children, some of them 
highly accomplished and moving in the first circles of society, with a 
numerous and highly esteemed posterity. 

" William Hallock, who died Sept. 28, 16S4, son of Peter Hallock, 
made a will, which is preserved in the ancient records both of Suffolk 



county at Kiverhead and of New York city. It is dated, " Southold 
(township), February 10, 1682," and was proved Oct. 21,1684: "I 
commit my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my gracious Redeemer, 
and my body to the earth by decent burial, in assured hope of the 
resurrection at the last day." H< S his property to his wife Mar- 

garet, his four sons. Thomas, Peter, William, and John, and his five 
daughters, Margaret, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Abigail. "The 
land where I now dwell at Aquebogue (near M attitude) and the lane 
dividing it, he wills to Thomas and I'eter, giving Thomas the western 
half, * except the swamp lot,' near his house; and giving Peter the 
eastern half, with the swamp lot and his dwelling. To his son Wil- 
liam he gives lands in or near Southold village, and to his son John 
land in Wading river." The will implies deep sorrow that his son 
John had married into and joined the then prescribed Society of 
Friends 1 , and has the proviso that if any one of his sons " shall apos- 
tatize from the Protestant doctrine and faith," or " wilfully and of set 
purpose contemn and neglect the public worship of God suitable 
thereto,"' what is here willed to him shall pass over to " the next law- 
ful heir that shall steadfastly profess and own the said doctrine and 
faith." 

" The Documentary History of the State of New York, in a list of 
those taxed in the township of Southold in 1675, gives but two of the 
name of Hallock. William, taxed ,£361, and John, doubtless William's 
eldest son, £82 j and in 1683 three of the name of Hallock, William 
.£236, John /"So, and Thomas £Si. Richard Howell, who lived on 
the lot adjoining the original homestead of Peter Hallock, being taxed 
in I0 75> £77 '• m l68 3' /9 s - I n tne same history a list of the total in- 
habitants of Southold township in 1698, including men, women, and 
children, in all 881, gives 254 persons bearing the names of twelve of 
the above thirteen original settlers. Among these are twenty-three of. 
the name of Hallock, viz.: Margaret Hldlock,. widow ; and in three 
distinct groups the families of three of William's sons: 1. Thomas 
Hallock, with Hope, Thomas, Kingsland, Ichabod, Zerubabel, born 

1 Quakers began to arrive in Boston in colonial times in 1656. The Hicksite 
division began on Long Island in 1757, a century later, under Elizabeth Hicks. The 
sect is very much on the wane and at the last Convention in Boston in May, 1904, 
only eleven members were dressed in old style costume. 



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1696, Anna, Patience, and Richard ; 2. Peter Hallock, with Eliza, 
Bethiah, Abigail, Peter Jr., William, and Noah, born 1696 ; 3. William 
Hallock, with Mary, William Jr., Prudence, and Zebulon. John Hal- 
lock, William's other son, having removed to Brookhaven, all the 
Hallocks in Southold township in 169S were the above twenty-three, 
the widow and descendants of the William Hallock who died in 1684. 
In the records of several of the earlier wills the signature is Halliock, 
and it has been conjectured that the name was originally identified 
with Holyoke [Dr. W. A. Hallock, " Hallock Ancestry," 1866.] The 
following facts as to the family and earlier descendants of each of 
these four sons of William Hallock have been chiefly obtained from 
the reliable source of wills and deeds preserved in certified records. 
Having visited the principal localities, ancient residences and graves, 
and carefully weighed the evidence in every case, I regard the main 
statements as unquestionably reliable. It is to be regretted that this 
brief sketch could not include the female^ perhaps the larger half of 
the Hallock generations. — Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, D. D., son of Rev. 
Moses Hallock, born 1794, in " Hallock Ancestry." 




HALLOCK CASTLE, 

New Haven, Ct. 



C II A PT KR I I . 



HALLOCK-HOLYOKE. 



" The facts of the landing of Petei Halli t Southold, I. I., in 1640, and 

the Location and historj oi the thirtei n first settlers, are given with great care and 
accuracy bj Rev Epher Whittaki I [ohm Votings in the church at 

Sou tin i id. in a sermon preac hed two hundred years after their landing. 'I he place 
where thej buried theii winter's provisions, and the cellar of the parsonage built for 
M i \ oungs, are -till t>> be seen, .in is this early pastor's cherished grave. Hallock's 
Neck and Beach in that vicinity Familiar as household words."— Hallock An- 

It is a curious lad that this most circumstantial and apparently in- 
controvertible story should now lie disci edited, after it has stood for 
more than two centuries and a half, by historians who once labored to 
establish its authenticity. It is even asserted that there was no Peter 
Hallock; and, indeed, his name cannot be found on the passenger 
lists of colonists migrating to America in 1632-8, as given in the 
Mass. Hist. Collections. YVhittaker himself, whose " History of 
Southold'* is in the Long Island Historical Society's library, says in a 
note to the author of these lines: 

" I repeated to your uncle, who compiled the Hallock Ancestry, the 
story which I had heard respecting Peter Hallock, and which is pub- 
lished in * (iriffen's Journal.' . . I now know that the story is un- 
true. There is not a particle of evidence to be found that Peter Hal- 
lock was ever here." 

But who was ? Who was the historical man ? Who was the father 
of William, whose record is admitted to be " clear and accurate," as 
attested by his res gestae and will of 16S2 ? That will is signed Wil- 
liam Hallock, but the copyist, whose rescript is of record, has in- 
advertently subscribed it Holyoake, a noticeable departure from the 

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original Holyoke. Recognizing these discrepances in the spelling, 
which are conspicuous on gravestones and legal documents along the 
family line for the preceding forty years, the logical conclusion would 
be that well authenticated facts of long standing, and always accepted 
as historical data, have simply been overlaid by a mirage resulting 
from a distortion and interchange of family patronymics. Reasons 
for such modifications are given elsewhere in the text. If the name 
Hallock was not on the passenger lists of colonists shipping for 
America, it would hardly appear among the persons set on shore. 
The question then arises, if Hallock is not a diatonic of Holyoke, 
whence and how did it originate ? It is not common in England to- 
day, and is not of record at Yarmouth or Hingham, whence Rev. 
Youngs and his company migrated. The name Holyoke has been 
known in England for centuries, and there is a family coat of arms. 
One Edward Holyoke migrated from Stafford county in 1639, and 
was afterwards President of Harvard College. His son, Elizur Hol- 
yoke, became well known in Northwestern Massachusetts in 1654 
from having received a grant of land near Northampton; and Mt. 
Holyoke is named for him because he camped at its base while land 
looking. The family arms appear in his will (171 1). He had a son, 
Edward Augustus, who lived to be nearly 100 years old. 

THE HOLYOKE ARMS. 

Arms : Azure, a chevron, argent, 
coticed, or, between three crescents 
of the second. 

Crest : A crescent, argent. 

[Another crest is a cubic arm erect, 
habited gules cuffed argent, holding 
in the hand proper an oak branch 
fruit-ed or.] 

Heraldic Journal, ii, 180; iv., 90. 

Emmerton and Waters : " Glean- 
ings from English Records," 57,(1880). 

S.G.Drake: "The History and 
Antiquities of Boston," (1856). 

S. V. Talcott : " New York and 
New England Families," 568. 

Sir Bernard Burke : " The General 
Armory of England," etc., (1884). 




errata 



L Edward of Tam^ ^ , n . , j H 

f-f V^olToke of Holyoke, Mass., 

Dr. Frank l.< - re ad 17*7- 

Medfovd. wanus , hort. Aug. »7, 

Page 7 8 b 



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Now, the signature to the application for the grant is spelled Elezer 
Holliok, while in the body of the application it is H^lliock ; and again 
in a report published the next year (Nov. i. 1654), it is spelled Elizer 
Holyoke. Further, the signature of the Will of William Hallock of 
Long Island, dated at Southold (township) Feb. 10, 1682, and proved 
Oct. 21, 1684, and on record at Riverhead, is written Hollyoake by 
the copyist. In several earlier Wills the signatures are Hallio^k. 
The name Halliofk appears on early tombstones in various grave- 
yards of eastern Long Island, but recent generations have substituted 
Hallock, Halleck, Hallick, and Hallack. The reason assigned and 
current on the Island is that the clansmen thought it sounded better. 
Hallock was first so written by Dea. Jabez Hallick (born 1760, and 
died 1N03, at WeMei nville. < >neida county, N. Y., aged 103 years. He 
wrote a running hand, and did not round his letters, and so his o got 
flattened into e.) 

Evidently the name was spelled by the sound. Few persons wrote 
or could write. The best scholars and authors spelled awkwardly. 
Orthography was in process of evolution. Chirography in business 
transaction was left to the clergy, scriveners, and clerks by principals, 
who took down phonetically the names as dictated. Pronunciation 
of proper names was not always clear or intelligible. It varied with 
individuals. Dialects were different according to districts and geo- 
graphical location. Some individuals chopped their words, and some 
drawled. The name Holyoke seems to have become almost obsolete 
in American city directories and cyclopedias of biography. Quite 
recently, in 1888, one of the family living in England came over to 
America in quest of kinsfolk, and found few of the name, if any. 
He afterwards published a volume of impressions entitled, "Among 
the Americans/* in which he makes such declaration. 

One of my references speaks of the Holyokes of Capawn Castle, 
Shropshire, Shiffnel, England, who were iron masters, or something 
of the kind. George Jacobs Holyoke, one of their descendants of 
considerable note, died at Brighton, Jan. 23, 1906, in his 89th year. 
[It was his son, George Jacob Jr., who wrote the book.] He was born 
in Birmingham, 1S17. The London Daily A T ews says he came of very 
humble origin as a button manufacturer, but afterwards became an 



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author of distinction and a prominent social, political, and religious 
agitator. Nevertheless, he "was fortunate in his friendshipsfwas 
honored and respected by Gladstone and the other liberal leaders 
He enjoyed the confidence of foreign democrats like Kossuth Maz- 
zm, and Garibaldi. He wrote "History of Co-operation in Eng- 
land, a work in two volumes, which Mr. Bright said was the only 
original argument in favor of the movement he had seen He also 
edited thirty volumes of « The Reasoner." He quarreled with Brad- 
laugh and abetted John Burns. He was the originator of the term 
Jingo m 1878. His « Reminiscences," it says, « are full of the most 
benevolent judgments upon men and opinions." 

In this connection it is interesting to note that the first recorded 
burial id the old Springfield (Mass.) cemetery, in 1641, and the oldest 
monument was in memory of Mrs. Mary Holyoke, daughter of William 
1 ynchon the founder of the colony, who was born in England, and died 
and was buried there His associates, Captain Eleazer [so spelled] 
Holyoke husband of Mary ; Deacon Chapin, a magistrate with Pyn- 
chon and Holyoke; Henry Burt, who was associated with them in 
the affairs of church and state; Rev. Peletiah Glover, the second 
minister of the town, who died in 1692, and Major Pynchon, the min- 
isters and magistrates and all classes of people for 2 oo years, were 
buried in this churchyard. 

These facts were restated in the Springfield Republican a few years 
ago, when the new city cemetery was opened 

For two generations after the emigration in 1630-40, the name of 
Ho yoke persisted as spelled ; thence onward continued variations 
took place. Just now, it is quite as difficult for inquirers to find Hal- 
locks in England as Holyokes in America, or even in colonial times 
or in the remote past. 



SYLLABUS. 



1636. Edward Holyoke, first instructor of Harvard Collet who 

was succeeded by Rev. Henry Dunster, in ,640, a & s 'presi- 
dent. 

1640. Peter Hallock [Holyoke ?] Iocated*t Mattituck, L. I New 

York. 



1059. Elezer Holliok, in application for land grant in Hampshire 

county, Mass.: spelled also Halliock in body of the instru- 
ment. 

[660-80. Halliock, Hallick, Hollyoake, and Holyoak on gravestones 
deeds, in Suffolk county, N. Y. 

Will of William llallock [copyist, Holyoake], son of Peter. 

1692-98. Mary Harlock and Thomas lb>rlock, children of Thomas 
and 

1719. Sarah, died 1719 and 1744. as per Vital Statistics of Edgar- 
town, M. V. 

1781. Dea. Jabez Hallick, Mattituck, L.I. .Moved to Western- 
ville, \. V. 
>2. William II. Hall/ck, New York City directory. Name some- 

times also spelled Halh/ck. 



1. THOMAS HALLOCK'S DESCENDANTS. 

No will or deed of Thomas Hallock, grandson of Peter of 1640, has 
been found, nor any record of his sons Kingsland and Richard, named 
as above in the census of [698. Ichabod, son of Thomas, wills 1759 

to his son Thomas, bom Jan. 6, 1766, who married Hannah , 

born Feb. 3, 1768, on I >ec. 28, 17SS, and had thirteen children, as fol- 
lows : Elizabeth, born May 25, 1789 ; Thomas, born Aug. 1, 1790; 
Hannah, born May 23, 1792 : Nancy, born Oct. 24, 1793; Mary, born 
July 5. 1795 : Sarah, born Jan. 31, 1797 : Noah, born Oct. 4, 1798 ; 
Margaret, born April 30, 1799: Katherine, born Aug. 1, 1801 ; Peter, 
born Nov. 13, 1^03: Daniel Miner, born Oct. 9, 1807; Nathaniel, 
born April 17, 1809; Conkline, born June 15, 1813. [From old Bible, 
dated 1806, in possession of F. E. Hallock, 735 Lexington Ave., 
Brooklyn, N. V.J Thomas 3d of New Providence, N. J., who died 
1 322, ag ed about 60, was father of Smith Hallock, who was father of 
Jeremiah R. Hallock of Newark, N. J. 

Zerubabel Hallock, son of Thomas, who has a large posterity near 
the original homestead, died April 8, 1761, aged 65, and his wife Es- 
ther, 1773, aged 78, as by their gravestones in Mattituck. He wills, 
1761, lands to his sons Zerubabel 2d, James, Joseph ; ^400 to Benja- 



min, student, who died 1765, aged 24 : ^100 to grandson William (then 
aged 11), to be paid him at 21, and ^10 to grandson Zechariah. Zeru- 
babel's sons, John aged 20, and William, aged 24, were drowned 1749, 
William's son William being born 1750, after his father's death, and 
having no brother. These facts are confirmed by Mrs. Esther Hal- 
lock Reeve, now 85, daughter of Zechariah. 

1. Zerubabel 2d, died March 31, 1800, aged 78, had seven sons: 
Zerubabel 3d, Richard, Zechariah, John, Daniel, Caleb, Ezra. Zeru- 
babel 3d, died 1804, aged 59, had three sons : Zerubabel, died 1803, 
aged 34 ; Jacob, father of Dr. Lewis of New York, born June 30, 1803, 
died March 3, 1897, and Horace of Detroit; and Rupert, father of 
David B., and Zerubabel, Baltimore. Richard had two sons : Rich- 
ard, father of Nathan Tuthill, and Benjamin, father of Benjamin 
Laurens, Jared, Jacob A., Samuel and Charles R. Zechariah, died 
1820, aged 71, had three sons : Zechariah 2d, born 1776, father of 
Herman and Zechariah 3d ; John, father of Franklin, Isaiah, Wells, 
Caleb ; Bethuel, born 1790, father of Bethuel E., Edwin, Joel, John K. 
Dea. John, Ridgebury in Minisink, now Wawayanda, Orange county, 
N. Y., died 1842, aged near 90 ; his son, Hon. John, was judge and 
member of Congress, father of Dr. DeWitt Clinton, Minisink. Daniel 
had four sons : Daniel, Wayne county, N. Y., father of Livingston, 
Corydon, and Lewis ; Dr. Elisha ; Col. Micah W., father of Dr. 
David H., Southampton, Daniel B., and Moses S. of Brooklyn, Elijah, 
and Elisha ; Dea. Ezra, father of George W., Ezra Y. of Dallas, Polk 
county, Oregon, and Rev. Joseph N. Caleb, Bridgewater, Oneida 
county, N. Y., died 1830, had two sons ; Caleb Jr. and Phineas, father 
of Norman and Daniel. Caleb Jr., aged 80, had five sons, Zadok H., 
John, and DeWitt, all at Almont, Lapeer county, Mich.; Thomas R., 
at Strawberry Point, Clayton county, Iowa, father of Herbert T. and 
three sons who died in the army ; and James C, who died in Orleans 
county, N. Y., Feb., 1859. aged 46, father of Washington Irving, and 
of Dayton S., of Almont, Mich. Ezra, father of William, of James- 
port, L. I. 

2. James, died Mattituck 1775, aged 44, wills to five sons: James, 
Jeremiah, Benjamin, William, Thomas. James, Esq., died March 5, 
1852, aged 90, had three sons : Benjamin Goldsmith ; Charles, mer- 
chant in New York, father of James ; and George, in Fowler, Ohio. 
Dea. Jeremiah, Cayuga, N. Y., died June 10, 1854, aged 83 ; had sons 



William J. and ( ieorge 15., father of William R. and George F. Ben- 
jamin died 1794, aged 21. William settled at Washtenau, Mich., 
father of Franklin of Cazenovia, Nelson, and James. Thomas, Smith- 
town I haneh, horn July 11, 1768, died Jan. 7, 1S54, father of James. 

3. Joseph, Hog Neck, opposite Southold, had sons Benjamin, 
William, Joseph, and Isaac. 

4. Isaac had son Salter, who had son Robert, who had son Julian. 
Benjamin had son 

5. Benjamin Hubbard, who had sons 

6. Edward Hubbard, Randall's Island, and Joseph Andrew. Jos- 
eph A. had daughters Sarah L. and Minnie B. Edward Hubbard had 
sons Henry S. (no family), Frank W., Edgar S., Herbert A., and 
Anna L. Frank W. had sons Edward W. and William A., and 
daughters May I... .Maud G., Bessie L., and Anna 15. Edgar S. had 
son Frank L. 

7. Herbert A. had daughters Marjorie L., Helen A., and Mary B., 
and son ( ieorge 1 >. 

Joseph 2d, (Hog Neck) was father of George, who had daughter 
Lucy, and sons Benjamin A. of Brooklyn, and Joseph N., editor of the 
Southold "Traveller." and for several years in New York State 
Assembly : a cousin of Joseph \\, editor of the " Christian Work and 
Evangelist," who has son William. Isaac was father of Benjamin A., 
of Brooklyn, who has son George 15., and three daughters. 

Benjamin A. had son George Benjamin, and daughters Edna, 
Nellie, and Ruth. Joseph X. has daughter Ann. 

4. William, son of Zerubabel 1st, drowned 1749, aged 24, had one 
son, William, born after his father's death. This William, born 1750, 
grandson of Zerubabel, died Riverhead, Sept., 1824, aged 74, buried in 
Upper Aquebogue, had seven sons: William, died Jan., 1824, aged 
50, father of lames of Greenpoint, Nicholas of Upper Aquebogue, 
Caleb : David, father of Jesse at Hermitage ; Peter, father of Harvey 
and Benjamin of New York; James of New York died 1832, father 
of James H., teacher, Sanford, and John; Sylvanus of New York, 
born July 21, 17S4, had seven sons: Aaron, Edward, Sylvanus of 
Chicago, Samuel M., John H, Lieut. Alfred, North Orange, N. J., and 
David F.; Noah of Riverhead, father of Terry, Daniel, George W., 
John, Charles; Guidon died young. 



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II. PETER HALLOCK'S DESCENDANTS. 

i. Peter Hallock, of the New Haven colony, landed at Hallock's 
Neck, L. I., N. Y., in 1640, and settled near Mattituck. 

2. William Hallock, his son, died at Mattituck in 1684. He had 
four sons, namely : 

3. Thomas, Peter, William, and John. Peter settled in Southold 
1 nomas at Rocky Point, William at Brookhaven, and John at Se- 
tauket. 

4. Peter had sons, Peter Jr., Noah, and William, who died young 
at sea. Peter Jr. was born in 1694, and died 1756. Noah was born 
1696, and died 1773. 

5- Peter Jr. had sons, Major Peter and William, and nine daugh- 
ters, one of whom, Elizabeth, married Richard Corwin. Major Peter 
married daughter of Joseph Mapes at the old homestead, and had 
five sons: Peter and James, who had no children ; Joseph, who fell 
as commander of an armed vessel in the war of the Revolution by the 
last shot before the attacking force surrendered [that was hard on 
him !], and Dea. Jabez, who wrote his name Halleck. He was born 
in Mattituck, and moved to Westernville, Oneida county, N. Y., in 
I797- He died Sept. 16, 1S63, in his 103d year, and was the grand- 
father of Henry Wager Halleck, born Jan. 16, 1814, who was Major- 
General, U. S. A., from July 11, 1862, to March 12, 1864, preceding 
Gen. Grant. He married a daughter of John N. Hamilton, son of 
Alexander, who fell in a duel with Aaron Burr at Weehawken, the 
slab which formerly marked the spot where he fell being now in the 
museum of the New York Historical Society. After the General's 
death, at Louisville, Ky., in 1872, his widow became the wife of Gen. 
George W. Cullum, and died at Newport, R. I., Sept. 16, 1897. Gen. 
Halleck's remains are interred in Greenwood cemetery. His mother 
was a sister to Bishop H. B. Whipple, of Minnesota, making the Gen- 
eral and the Bishop first cousins. His brother, Andrew J., born Sept. 
5, 1830, was on his staff. His brother Jabez died at Monterey, Cal., 
in 1849, Joseph at Highlands, N. C. ; William Wines, Peter, and 
John in Westernville. His only son, Henry W., died at Littleton, 
N. C, on May 26, 1883, aged 26, 




HALLO) K'S NECK, 

Southold, L. I. 



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Of Gen Halleck, the late Justice Stephen J. Field of the U. S. 
Supreme Court wrote to the author in March, 1884, as follows: 
" Our relations were quite intimate and very friendly for many years. 
He rendered verv important service to California when he was secre- 
tary to Gen. Riley, who was military governor before it was admitted 
into the Union. It was probably owing to him more than to any 
other person that the convention of 49 was called, which gave us the 
constitution of a free State.- Noah HallocW, Peter's brother, had 
sons Noah, William, and Josiah. born ,732, didd 1815, who had sons 
Josiah, father of George, James, Amos, and Jonathan, born 1766, died 
,S 47 the father of Jesse and Samuel, born 179a, died 1836, who was 
the father of Sylvester, born 1816, died 1904. \ His brother Merritt, 
and sons Daniel and Sylvester Jr., are still living on the old place, 
making seven generations who have occupied it, Which is something 
out of the ordinarv in this country. \ 

Frederick, born at the old homestead April 11, i 7 59>died at Quogue, 
L. I., |une 22, 1853, aged 94, had hve sons: James, Frederick 2d 
Peter, Harvey, and Benjamin F. James, born at the old homestead 
Jan ic, 1787, settled at Quogue, and was father of jamesSJ Wi- 
Ham S. O , and Harvey F. C. : Frederick 2d, father of Capt. Frederick 
M of Franklinville. Nathan B. of Flanders, Harvey of Bndgehamp- 
ton, John I), of Quogue, and Captain Franklin B., who was killed in 
the Civil War, aged 33 : Peter died May 11, 1859, aged 60, father of 
Peter R. of Atlanticville ; Harvey died at 23 ; and Benjamin Frank- 

lin \Villiam, brother of Major Peter and father of Mary Hallock Ber- 
nard of Brooklyn, died at Old Aquebogue 1794, aged S3, had three 
sons : William, Benjamin, and Samuel. William died Aug. 16, 1806, 
aged 36 Benjamin settled at Middle Island, had sons Benjamin B 
Of New York; Daniel B. and Thomas J. of Patchogue ; John of 
Mastic: Samuel of Middle Island ; Strafford C. of Yaphank; Isaac 
D of Bellport. Samuel, whose son William of Mattituck is father of 
Lieut. Charles C. of Brooklyn, and John W. of Riverhead. 

Noah Hallock, born 1696, settled at Blue Point in Rocky Po n t, 
near Old Man's, now Mount Sinai, opposite New Haven died 1773, 
aged 77. as by his gravestone, had three sons : Noah, William, Josiah. 



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Noah, born 1728, had five sons: Rev. Noah, Hendrickson, Peter, 
Thomas, and Dea. Philip. Rev. Noah, pastor at Mount Sinai, died 
18 1 8, aged 60, father of Daniel Miner, Esq. Hendrickson had sons 
Hendrick, father of Hendrickson, and Herman, who died Oct. 28, 
1863. Peter died young. Thomas of Smithtown had two sons : 
Thomas, father of Capt. Thomas G., Rev. Luther C, Ephraim of 
Setauket, and Henry H. ; and Noah, who had five sons : Arden M. 
of Greenpoint; Peter, father of Elvin B., George C, and Edgar M. ; 
Daniel Miner, father of Alanson and Leonard M. ; Nathaniel Conk- 
ling, Dea. Philip, father of Philip and James. 

6. William, Noah's son, horn 1730, at Brookhaven, L. I., married 
Alice Homan of Chilmark, M. V., and moved to Goshen, Mass., in 
1766, and died Oct. 21, 1815 : his wife in 1816 ; both buried in Goshen. 
They had nine children, of whom Jeremiah, Moses, Polly, Alice, 
and Bethiah were born at Brookhaven, and Abigail, Martha, Esther, 
and Mercy at Goshen. Goshen was settled in 1761. Esther mar- 
ried Rev. Josiah Hayden of Haydenville, Mass., in March, 1793. 
She was born 1779, died Sept. 11, 1862, aged 93. The Haydens are 
descendants of Joel Hayden of Dorchester, Mass., who was one of 
the founders of the Bay Colony, in 1630. Josiah's brother Joel was 
Lieut-Governor of Massachusetts in 1863-65, and son-in-law of Gen. 
William Eaton of Tripolitan fame in 1805. Abigail married Rev. 
Joel Chapin of Worthington, Sept., 1793, and died of smallpox in 
Goshen, 1794. Polly married Daniel Perkins of Plainfield in 1794. 
Alice married Daniel Case, and Bethiah married Stephen Hos- 
ford of Goshen, whose son Moses, born 1756, had sons Stephen, 
Jeremiah, and William, and a daughter, Clarissa (Packard), who died 
in Plainfield, Mass., Aug. 10, 1902, aged 85. A married daughter of 
hers, Mrs. Lucie B. Lamb, died of cancer in hospital at Worcester, 
Mass., in January, 1904, leaving no issue. William married a Streeter 
in 1847. Mercy died in Goshen Sept. 27, 1809. 

7. Rev. Jeremiah, born at Brookhaven, L. L, March 13, 1758, was 
for 41 years pastor of a church in Canton, Conn., died June 23, 1826, 
aged 68, married Mercy Humphrey of West Simsbury, Conn., in 1786, 
and had sons Hon. Jeremiah H., judge in Steubenville, Ohio (who 
had a daughter Lavinia) and William Homan, the father of Jeremiah 
S. and William. His grandfather Noah was own cousin to Dea. 



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Jabez Hallock, the father of Joseph and grandfather of Gen. Henry 
Wager Hallock. His mother-in-law, Olivia Hallock Humphrey, died 
at 99 years of age. Joseph was a lieutenant in the war of 1S12, mar- 
ried a dau-hter of Henry Wa-cr, and died June 22, 1857, aged 72. 
An autobiography of Rev. Jeremiah was printed in 1828. 

Rev. Moses was pastor of a church in Flainfield, Mass., for 45 
years— 1792 to 1S37— and teacher of a classical school for 40 years, 
which turned out 304 pupils during its continuance, of whom seven 
were foreign missionaries, fifty clergymen, and many others men of 
distinction, including Marcus Whitman, who saved Oregon to the 
United States in 1846. when its possession was disputed by England 
for Canada: John (Ossawatomie) Brown, William Cullen Bryant, 
lames and William Richards, missionaries to Ceylon and the Sandwich 
Islands respectively ; Levi Parsons and Pliny Fisk in Palestine ; Jonas 
King in Greece; Prof. Sylvester Hovey; Rev. Bela B. Edwards, 
D. D.: Hon. Wm. H. Maynard; Hon. Jeremiah H. Hallock, and 
, nanv others— had sons Wm. A., Leavitt, Gerard, Homan, and daugh- 
ter Martha, born .70'.. who died May 22, 1852, at the age of 56, un- 
married. 

8. William A. Hallock. I). D., was for 50 years secretary of the 
American Tract Society, the half century anniversary having been 
celebrated in New York Sept. 26, 1876. He was born June 2, 1794, 
died Oct. 30, 1SS0, married Fannie Leffingwell Lathrop 1833, who 
died March 10. 1S66. By this first wife he had daughters Harriet 
Joanna, born Feb.. 1S35. and Frances Elizabeth, born Jan. 9, 1837. 
Harriet married Rufus Park of New York, by whom she had son 
William Hallock Park, born Dec. 30, 1863, and died Jan. 15, 1881. 
Frances married John Edgar Johnson, manager for Brown Bros., 
bankers. New York, in 1S64, and has seven living children. Mary 
Augusta, aged 44. married Dr. C. S. Olds of Marco, Florida, and has 
children Orida, Saloma, and Rosalie ; John Edgar Jr., aged 42, unmar- 
ried, lives in England; Rev. William, professor Lincoln Univ., Pa 
married Virginia Sherrard, has son Hallock Sherrard ; Harriet, aged 
36, unmarried, lives in Ossining, N. Y. ; Grace Estelle, aged 35, mar- 
ried Irving R. Williams Oct. 19, 1897, Ossining, N. Y., and has son 
Robert Irving Williams ; Walter Lathrop, aged 32, single, New York ; 
and Roswell, aged 27, married Helen A. Brown, Ossining, 1906. Dr. 



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William A. Hallock married a second wife, Mary A. Lathrop, in 1868 
and died Oct. 2, 1880, aged 86. The relict died in New York June 20 
190 1, aged 92. ' 

Leavitt Hallock, farmer and tanner, Plainfield, Mass, born 
Jan 21, i 79 8, died Oct. 16, 1877, at Amherst, married Elizabeth Porter 
Sne 1, daughter of Ebenezer of Cummington. Her sister married 
William Cullen Bryant, poet. Their brother, Ebenezer S, went to 
Cahfornia in 1851, and died 1S5-, leaving son George, now manager 
of Hotel del Monte, whose son Arthur is assistant observer at the 
Lick Observatory, near San Jose. Leavitt and Elizabeth had daugh- 
ters Fanny and Eliza, twins, born in 1830; Mary, born 1837, died 
Aug. 16, 1851, and infants Sarah and Ellen, died 1845 and 1851 and 
sons William Allen, born Aug. 27, 1832, Moses G., born 1839, 'died 
Sept. 3, 1846 ; and Leavitt Homan, born Aug. 15, 1842. Fanny mar- 

x „ R l V ; ^ Gnry K Hazeltine > and is now a widow at Jamestown, 
N. Y. She has daughters Lizzie M. and Alice, unmarried, who are 
teachers at Columbia, S. C, and New York city. Eliza married Rev 
Thomas Rouse, and died a widow Oct. 25, 1902, leaving daughter 
Fanny, who married Philip Carpenter, a lawyer of New York (they 
have no children), and Mary E, who married 1887 Arthur W Brown 
now of Manatee, Florida ; and son Rev. Fred T. Rouse, who married 
Constance Waite of South Freeport, Wis., and has three children : 
Hallock, Winnifred, and Mary. 

Rev. William A. married i860 Clara M.Hall of Jamestown N Y a 
sister of Elliott Hall, who married Tirzah Snell, daughter 'of ' Prof 
Ebenezer Snell, of Amherst College. She died Sept. 17, 1897, a-ed 
61, and had son William Hall, born 1864, educated in Germany, died 
1894, and daughter Nellie B., wife of Dr. Alfred Tennyson Living- 

S Jr n '^"u D ; 0f Jamestown - The y have one daughter named Clar'a 
Elizabeth, born May 5, 1900. 

Rev. Leavitt H. of Minneapolis, Minn., married Martha B. Butler 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died Oct. 2, 1873, leaving daughter Lilian 
Huntington, born Aug. i 9 , 1868, who married Dr. Geo Russell 
Campbell of Waterville, Me., Sept. 25, 1895, and has daughter Mildred 
Hallock, born Aug. , 3> 1897; and son Harry Butler of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, born Oct. 31, 1870, who married Anna Adelia Lamson Aug 28 
1893, and has children named Leavitt, born Feb. 27, 1897, and Helen' 



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born March 28, 1S98. Rev. Leavitt married for second wife Ellen M. 
Webster of Portland, Me., Oct. 3, 1888. They have no issue. 

GERARD HALLOCK, born Mar. 18, 1800, was editor of the New York 
« journal of Commerce " for 34 years. At one time, before the war 
he w is active in the Southern Aid Society, with Dr. Robert Baird and 
Rev [oseph C. Stiles, under whose auspices and furtherance the 
slaves of the South would have been manumitted without war or 
bloodshed, as summarily and peacefully as were the slaves of Brazil, 
in twenty years' time. It was Mr. Hallock's efforts to- prevent force- 
ful action that brought him to the inquisition of the anti-slavery poli- 
ticians, who persisted in provoking a conflict, and thereby shortened 
his li.V lb- died Ian. 4. .866. On June 2, 1825, he married Eliza 
Allen, born Sept. 30, 1800, daughter of Ezra Allen of Martha s Vine- 
yard. She died April 1, 1873. Had sons William Homes, Charles, 
Leavitt, and Gerard, and daughters Eliza, Caroline Mayhew Butler, 

and Marv Cordelia. , 

9 Willi.,.,, II.. bom Aug. .6, ,8,6, married Julia Mack daughter of 
Col John Mack of Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 3, .85'. and d.ed June 24, 
,8 94 ; she Bve months later. Had sons William G. of Boston bache- 
lor a-cd 54, and Gerard of Pottstown, Pa., who marned C. Adele 
Pa :,e of 1 ooklvn lune 3 o,,<P3. and have children Gerard 3d, and 
M.,U,a. An only daughter, Laura, married Rev. r .J. Komm r of 
Holland Jan. ,4. ,885, who died in National Cty C * bi °™'^*' 
,904, where she resides with her daughters, Inborn Apr,L 9, 1 «7, 
Clara Petronella, born Sept. .,. ,89,, and Donald, born March 7 , 

' S Kli,a.bornJu„e,4,.3 2 8, died 'Feb. a, ,893, married Ezekie, por- 
ter Belden of Wethersfield, Conn., born Apnl ,4, i««3. »d had son 
James, who died in infancy, and Mary E born Jan. ,4, • Belden 
was editor of the New York - Shoe and Leather Reporter in the 

7 °Char,es, born March ,3, ,834, carried Amelia J. WardeU of New 
York, daughter of Oliver T. Wardell (whose ancestors set led ^Newaric 
N 1 and Julia Pratzner, whose father was a colonel in the Prus 
IN. j.), ana j £ Hallock in Minnesota in 1879- 

sian army. He tounctea tne iu«n u r p re . 

So, and with Fayette S. Giles the Blooming Grove Park . G me ^ 
Pike county, Pa., in ,S 7 o. In ,883 he made the first sue 



serve in 



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cessful culture of sunflowers for the oil product. From ,8j2 to ,8,4 

uSr CW fi h N " V Y ° rk " JournaI of Commerce" but 

he author o? " the /T^. * "fores, and Stream," and also 

H J- I . . ny b °° ks 0f travel - s P° rt . a "d natural science 

« V !' fe d ' ed A P ril 8 ' ' 9 °'- They had sons Ch «»« Jr, born Sent' 

1, .356, died Feb. «, ,86 9 ; Livingston, and Edmund L e Leavit ' 

and Gerard ar H S, H b0rn JU,y *°' ' 836 ' died D "' 5. '°39 CaXe 
and Gerard Jr. d,ed young. Mary C, born Aug. , 7 , ,84, married 

Moses Porter Snell of North Brookfield, Mass! born M " 1 

wlnle he was an officer in the army in August, 862. He afte'rwafd 

° U T , S - P0S ' 0ffi « De P'- *< Washington. [He was the 

fatnerof Prof F^ laS . Sne " (U " C ' e ° £ Wi " iam Cu " en Br ^ ™<* 
father of Prof. Ebenezer Strong Snell, the first graduate of Amherst 

College), who was co-founder of Amherst College byhiswife thegrand 

daughter of Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Dr. Snell is also d scended 

from John and Priscilla Alden, Rev. Solomon Stoddard, Hooker the 

founder of the Hartford colony, and Pierpont, second head of the 

A 7onZr 'h™?' f " T'' *****" ^ »™g person to 

Aaron Bur. H s family ,s a branch of the Snells of Wilton Wilt- 
store England, landed gentry; and the first American head of the 

la ™ o°f ^h Sne "* Came °T !n l658 ' and Was the — er o a 
7-1 ;J preSent townshi P of East Bridgewater Mass 1- 

Copted from "Mind- for March, ,904,/ 240 J 

The Porter graft into the Hallock family is traced to Samuel Por- 
ter who located ,„ Hadley, Mass., in ,6 59 , and had son Samuel Jr 
whose son Eleazer, ,697, was the first child born in the place who 
had son Eleazer, , 72 8 who was the father of Col. Moses Porter! born 
m 68, for whom Mary C. Hallock's husband was named. The 
Po ers came to Hadley from Wethersfield, Conn., whence E. Porter 
Belclen grot his name. cr 



dauih? * , \ S P ° rter Sne " a ' ld Wife had seven *>-« and two 

ca. w iter mm 1 y v r e ™ in ?0rter ' b °™ Aug - 2 ' l86 3. a »oted topi- 

W cIlT a I' " gUiSt * '^ a ' ° ne dme P resident ° f ~IIe 8 e in 
W.ch.ta Kansas, who married, Dec. 24, ,892, Minnie A. Sprao-ue (a 

wtdow with two sons,, daughter of Col. and Rev. E. W. Andrews who 

was first pastor of Tabernacle (Cong., church in New York ctry and 



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commandant at Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, in the civil war; Gerard Hal- 
lock, born 1865, died June 14, 1869; Carleton Emerson, born June 1, 
,870' drowned while bathing in Potomac June 22, 1895; Theodore 
Thomas, a lawyer in New York, born Sept. 9, 1875, married Alice 
Spelman of Brooklyn Oct. 25, .905 ; Charles Livingston, a Cuban war 
veteran and captain <.f 1 >ist. Columbia 1st regiment, born Dec.i 1, 1877, 
married Sarah E. Rittenhouse, of D. C, May 16, 1906: William Arthur, 
I s M C, born Dec. 23, 1879, single ; Cora L., U. S. A., single, born 

,874 was 18 months in hospital service in the Philippines; Clarence 

Edwards, single, born April 17, 1882, supt. State Home, Denver Col 
and Eliza Carroll, born June 1, i868,married, Oct. 11, 1888, Rev. Joseph 

M Long of Boston, for fifteen years clergyman in Maine and Dor- 
chester, Mass., and now in the Civil Service Bureau, Washington, 
1, C; has sons Hallock, born Sept. 14, 1891 5 Carleton M., born Oct. 
!4 ,897, and Geo. ■■• Arnold, born Feb. 27, 1902, and daughters Doro- 
thy, born Nov. , : ( rertrude E., born April 29, 1895, and Cath- 
erine P.., bom July 27, ii . 

HOMA* HALLOi k. type founder and missionary printer, born May 
24> ,803, died Cummington, Mass., Oct. 19, 1894, aged 91 years and 
c months, married at Malta, in the Mediterranean, on March 26, 1828, 
Mrs Elizabeth Fleet Andrews, born July 27, i 7 99, died Sept. 18 1875, 
daughter of Benjamin and Esther Fleet of London, England, and 
widow of Henry Andrews, who died at Malta the same year, leaving 
daughter Mars' Ann. born Aug. 4, 1824, who became the : wife :o 
Rev Joseph W. Baggs of Newfoundland, born May *> **°> d ™ 
March 23, 1852, and mother of Fred A. Baggs, now of New York, 
and his'siste'r, A. Josephine Baggs, who lives at Cnsneld, Md 
with her mother (now Mrs. Mary Ann Cochrane by a second husband) 
and her widowed son, Robert Cochrane, and his daugh * Edna 
Arietta, born Ian. 5, i8 9 4- In 1S38 Horn an Hallock obtained a 
patent rom Oliver Ellsworth for a time lock and a pantagraph, and 
' hUe he was in Syria he invented the Arabic type, - -opera on 
with Rev. Eli Smith; made several fonts of the same .for the Am n 
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He printed the 
first Arabic Bible. He was very active in his last y"™^g 
physically, and at 86 was not only chopping down an orchard of sixty 
old apple trees, but published in the New York Evening Post a con 



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secutive series of aphorisms or sage sayings under the caption of 
"The Wisdom of Bar-Homan, an Eastern Patriarch who writes at 
the age of 86, and is likely to live to be 100." An untimely fall cut off 
this expectation. He was " sticking type" in his shop near his daugh- 
ters residence in Cummington, Mass., until past 90. He had sons Moses, 
born April 28, 1829, died Sept. 12, 1878 ; Homan Benjamin, born June 
24, 1830, at Malta, Mediterranean, died Oct. 19, 1895 ; Gerard Jewett, 
born 1S32, died Aug. — , 1894 ; Margaret Esther, born Dec. 22, 1834 ;' 
Samuel, born March 3, 1S36 ; Sarah, born Dec. 22, 1838 ; and William 
Allen, born Aug. 24, 1843. Moses married Edith Cox in 1852, and 
had daughters Sarah Elizabeth, born 1854 ; Margaret Esther and 
Mary Eliza, twins, born 1856; Alice Jane, born 1858, died March 26, 
1874 ; and William Clinton, born i860. Margaret Esther married 
Jonas Lawrence, and had two children. Sarah Elizabeth married 
and had three children. Moses married a second wife in 1875 named 
Sarah Plympton. Homan Benjamin married Adelia Ann Farns- 
worth of Holiday's Cove, West Va., in 1854. She was born Oct. 7, 
1835, and resides now in Steubenville, Ohio, where her large family of 
twelve children was raised, all now living. 

1. Gerard Benjamin Fleet, D. D., Rochester, N. Y., born Jan. 28, 
1856, married Anna C. Cobb of New York city in 1888. Have chil- 
dren Clarissa, born 1890, died 1893 ; Archibald, born June 13, 1893 ; 
twins Marianna and Adelia, born May ir, 1897. 

2. Robert Crawford Hallock, Ph. D., Clinton, N. Y., born Nov. 
9, 1857, married Mattie Wells in 1885. Have seven children living. 

3. Effie Victorine, born Dec. 22, 1859, married Rev. William P 
Braddock of Pittsburg, Pa., in 1888. He died in 1890. Had one son 
Wm. Hallock B., born in 1889 ; lives with his mother, who was a mis- 
sionary in India. 

4- Silas Farnsworth Hallock, M. D., New York city (26 E. 54th 
St.), born Nov. 6, 1861, married 18S9 Sarah Jane Cobb. Had child 
Anna, born June 29, 1890. 

5- John Crawford Hallock, M. D, Cleveland, O., address 691 
Cedar ave. Has two children living 

6. Rev. Wm. Allen, born Nov. 1, 1867 : is not married : residence, 
Groveland, N. Y. 



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7 . Rev. Henry C. Ph. D, born March 3.. 1S70, (single) a mission- 
"I Mark's ll.aity (26 K. 54th st, New York), born June 24, .87., 
^ftliMeth, born April 30, ,8 74 , (single), teacher in Mil- 
bU ,'o.' Frances Adelia, born April ,2, .876, (single), teacher in Daven- 
P °,'!: 'Margaret Sutherland, born July ... .879, Mt. Holyoke college 

in ,'r 3 , l ,„ 11 an Kitz Greene, born Feb. 22, ,883, Steubenville, Ohio. 
Nine were born in Holiday's Cove, three in Steubenv, lie 
Gerard Jewett married Cordelia N. Carter in ,857, and had sons 
Edmund and George, who died at the age of 26 and Harry now Iv- 
in ,. by second wife, Eva Sneeden. Margaret Esther married _Rct. 
Theodore I.. Byington, May 30, .858, missionary to Turkey, Bulgar a 
and the Last. Had daughters Caroline Margaret, bom June ..., .859. 
Elizabeth Linn, born in ,866, and Margaret ranees born^ — ;™ d 
sons Rev. Edwin HaUock, Roderick, born March, 1873, and JJenry, 
who died in Philipolis at the age of two years^ Samuel ^^Tol 
Stitt.863, died ,86 S , without issue; second wife Sarah Tabe. ^ol 
Syria, and had sons Arthur Tabet, *»^e Lay and had 

C p h S— ^ d L hLd:X e MUr d; aSf; who has wife 

,:;::,, end. sm «* ^^ ^ "tank"- 

composer and author: was born ,87 ^»^ D ££E* HaUock, 

„al, of «#",^-W *$ ZZ wmiam K. Du Pont 
born Aug. ,6. 1902. Daughter_ ttnet children. In ,867 

of Wilmington, Del.. June i,iS 9 9- They nav e> w o S vria for 

Samuel had charge of elec.rotyping the JVrab.c Bibl e n Syn a to 
the American Hoard of Commissioners for Foieign M.ssions, a 
later on was consul at Beirut Cummington. 

Sarah HaUock married Charles Colton Streeter 
Mass., May ,, 1839. He died Sept. .7, .894- They ha«U ^ 
Nellie Keziah Streeter, born Feb .5, i860 A " Richm0 „d, 

Oct. ,9. .865-. Charles Walter, born July 30, 1867, Albert Rcl 
born July 8,1869: Stella Georgians, born Aug. 6.1874. 



dore Warren, born Sept. 15, 1878. Nellie K. married Archibald V 
Leland of South Ashfield, Aug. 29, 1900, and has an adopted daugh- 
ter, Dons E. f born Oct. 2i f 1902. Arthur H. married Oct. 9, 1900, 
Ada E. Lyman of Cummington, who was born Oct. 29, 1867 They 
have children : Margaret Agnes Streeter, born Oct. 27, 1901 ; Arthur 
Lyman, born Sept. 13, 1902 ; Sarah Helen, born April 1, i 9 o 4 ; and 
Mary Evelyn, born April 27. 1905. Albert R. married Isabella Stew- 
art Aug. 19, 1903, and has children Nellie Agnes, born April 19 1904 
and Fayolyn Gordon, born Dec. 28, 1S05. William A. of Chicago 
married Ella Parker. 



III. WILLIAM HALLOCK'S DESCENDANTS. 

The will of William Hallock, Southold village, grandson of Peter of 
1640, made 1728, proved r 73 6, bequeaths lands received from his 
father, William, to two sons, Zebulon and Peter, but he evidently had 
a third son, Joshua, who settled in Hallock's Neck, now Old Neck in 
Moriches. [This point is now (1906) owned by the Penn R R Co 
and has been leased by the Ladies" Village Improvement Society for 
a public park.-c. h.] William Hallock, who was 80 years old in 1866 
and who lived near Moriches with his father Jonathan, son of Zebu- 
Ion, as below, states that his father always spoke of David, son of 
Joshua, as his first cousin, and of their fathers Zebulon and Joshua 
as brothers, and sons of William of Southold, and that Peter had no 
children. William Hallock of Brookhaven wills 1748 to wife Dinah 
sons Jesse, William, Richard, and David, and daughters Mary' 
Dinah, Sarah, and Elizabeth. No record is found of William 2d 
named in the census of 1698. Quoting from " Hallock Ancestrv " 
1866, I note that— 

I. Zebulon Hallock lived near Southold village, and had sons John y 
Zeoulon 2d, Israel, Jonathan, and three, William, Nathan, and Samuel 
who had no children, Jonathan being the youngest of seven sons. 
LNathan Hallock died 1756 just after his marriage. In 1763 Mary 
Hallock wills to son Samuel.] 

i. John, at Cutchogue, died, aged 84, had two sons John 2d and 
Luther. John 2d had three sons: John S„ father of John S. Jr., 



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William, and Erastus of Cutchogue, father of Silas of Mattituck, ancJ 
Samuel 1\ of Brooklyn. Luther had sons Luther and Alanson. 

2. Zebulon 2d, born 1727, settled in Minisink, now Greenville, 
Orange county. N. V.. died 1814, aged 87, had four sons: Zebulon 3d, 
Henry, Thomas W., and Joseph. Zebulon 3d died Greenville 1825^ 
aged 58, was lather of Zebulon 4 th, who died aged 22, and father and 
son were laid in one -rave: of Daniel Booth Hallock. Waverly, N.Y., 
and of Ruth, mother of Rev. Hallock Armstrong of Monroeton, Pa. 
Henry died Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., 1838, aged 68, 
father Of Morris W. and Henry Wells. Belden P.O., McHenry 
county. 111. Thomas W., Lumberland, Sullivan county, born Dec. 31, 
178., father of [esse of I rreenville, William, Hosea, Andrew J., Jos- 
eph, Thorns V.. Daniel V., and Oliver. Joseph, Greenville, died 
182 j. aged 38, had sons Henry near Scranton, Fa., and Joseph Wells 
of Eaton, Wyoming county, Pa., died 1S65, father of Martin L., Hor- 
ace, Benjamin I'.. and [ohn L. 

3 Israel, died at Ridgebury in Minisink, now Wawayanda, Orange 
county, N. V.. aged no, had seven sons : William, Richard, Nathan, 
Israel 2d. Samuel, Elisha, Parker. 

William, at Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y., died 1821, aged 65, 
had eight sons: William, died 1862, aged 78, father of Joseph P 
Esq and William H. of Greenville, Greene county; Levi G, and 
James M. of Durham: Daniel. Maryland, Otsego county, father of 
Rev William M. of Summit, Schoharie county: Stephen, father of 
Alpheus, William, Stephen, Nicholas, and Robert; Linus died in New 
York, father of William of Harrisburg, Pa., Daniel L. of New York, 
and John C.: Dea. Richard, father of Nathan: Benton, Greenville, 
Greene county, died 1865. father of Lucius Edgar, Springfield, Mass 
and Lewis Benton. Durham: Samuel, Crawford county, Pa.; and 

David, Unadilla, N. Y. 

Richard, son of Israel, died in Greenville, Orange county, 1828, 
aged 70. had six sons : Luther, father of Martin L, and Ornn ; Eli, 
father of Albert and Eli, Northmoreland, Wyoming county, Pa., and 
Horace, Harveyville, Luzerne county, Pa.; Calvin, Wyoming county 
father of Youngs, near Madison, Wis., Hulet of Franklin, Jesse of 
Hanover, Eli of Pittston, John and Charles, Northmoreland ; Zebulon,, 



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judge, Pope county, 111.; Parker and Richard, Greenville, Orange 
county, N. Y. & 

Nathan, West New York, had sons Dennis, Olam, Hoadley, Israel 
Israel 2d died Dec. 10. 1844, aged 80, had six sons : Joseph, died 
* arm Ridge, Laselle county, 111., aged S3, father of Israel and Har- 

17\J*S ' Mt H ° pe ' ° ran " e count y» was father of James B., P. 
M., M.ddletown, Orange county, and Harvey of Wisconsin Dr 
Harvey of Newton, N. J., father of Israel L. Gabriel, Mt. Hope' 
Oliver B., Michigan. Dr. William A., Pittsburg, Pa., father of Wm. 
E. and Harvey T. 

Samuel, near Rome, N. Y, died aged 87, father of Parker, who died 
1864 aged 71; Abraham Harding, P. M., Westmoreland, Oneida 
county, N. Y.: Hosea, Clark's Mills. 

Elisha, died 1844, aged 76, whose son Ira, Orange P O Luzerne 
county, Pa., born Sept. 23, i 797 , is father of Elisha W., Cedar Falls 
Iowa, and Nathan Parker, Franklin, Luzerne county, Pa., who died 
1863. 

Parker, son of Israel ist, died 1848, Norwich, Chenango county, 

4. Jonathan, son of Zebulon, died about 1824, aged 86, near Man- 
orville, L. I., at Cherry Valley, where are the graves of himself and 
his sons Reeves and Jonathan, and where his son William, aged 80 
now lives. He had four sons : Reeves, Canoe Place, died Oct 9 
1859, aged 92, father of Jonah of Speonk, and Luther; Jonathan of 
Speonk, father of Zebulon, who died aged 58 ; William, born April 
25, 1786, father of Lewis Parker; and Lewis, born Sept. 23, 1796, died 
1857, for whom the town of Hallock, Peoria county, 111., was named 

II. Joshua, son of William, who died 1736, owned and lived on 

Hallock's Neck'" of 500 acres, now " Old Neck," in Moriches, had 
three sons : David of Moriches, and Jonathan, and Joshua, who 
moved with their father to Sugar Loaf, Orange county, N. Y. 

i. David of Moriches, born 1743, died April 22, 1812, aged 69, as 
by his gravestone, and his son John, born April 2, 1803, is father of 
David Hallock, P. M., Bridgehampton, and James, Charles, Edmund 
t ., Nicoll T., and of Mrs. Adelaide Hallock Van Houten of Moriches 

2. Dea. Jonathan settled in Chester (valley), then Monroe, Orange 
county, N. Y., was deacon and elder in Chester till his death, March 



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i6, 1816, aged 66, and had six sons: Joshua, who died in the war of 
1812 ; Jonathan died about 1S33; John D., born 1790, settled at East 
Bethany, near Batavia, X. Y., Augustus Van Cortlandt, Climax 
Prairie, Mich., born 1793, father of Thomas J.; William J., born 1798, 
Haverstraw, X. V., father of John of Warwick, and Martin; and 
James J. Esq., at Sugar Loaf, Orange county, who died 1854, aged 59, 
father of Elbert, Daniel, William, P. M. at Sugar Loaf, James, George 
at Churchville, X. V., and Capt. John, killed in U. S. army. 

3. Joshua, son of Joshua of Moriches, settled at Sugar Loaf, 
Orange county, X. Y.. and moved to Romulus, Seneca county, where 
in 1S05, he deeded lands to four sons, David, Joshua Jr., Jonathan, 
and Caleb. David, died Greenwood, Steuben county, July 10, 1846, 
aged over 70, had sons Simpson, Samuel, Ira, Jerome, and Oliver. 
Joshua Jr. had sons Nathaniel, Joel, Oliver, Jesse, and Caleb. Oliver 
died July 26. 1863, aged 63, father of Halsey P. of Romulus, and 
Lewis. Jonathan died Tyrone. Steuben county, March 5, 1845, aged 58, 
had sons Lewis, Charles, Silas, Abel, Benjamin, Edwin, Eli, George, 
and Joel. Caleb settled in Aurora, Erie county, N. Y. 



IV. JOHN HALLOCK'S DESCENDANTS. 

The Westbury Monthly Meeting of Friends records the death of 
John Hallock, grandson of Peter of 1640, and that of his wife, Abigail 
Swazey, at Setauket, in Brookhaven, in 1737, " both very ancient and 
in unity with Friends." She died Jan. 23, 1737, Deeds at Riverhead 
name four of his sons, John 2d, Peter, Benjamin, and William, who 
all settled near him in Setauket, as did also his son Jonathan, whose 
children and William's are known to have been cousins. A deed in 
17 15 from William to his son William is now held by their descen- 
dant, Edmund P. Hallock. The neat dwelling of John Hallock 1st, 
covered with cedar, and that of John 2d still remains (1863) in Se- 
tauket. 

I. John Hallock 2d, Friends' preacher, by his will 1765, aged 
S6. had three sons, John 3d, Edward, and Samuel, and daughters Abi- 
gail Powell, Sarah Hunt, and Hannah Saterly. 



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i. John 3d, North Castle, Westchester county, N. Y., died 1757, 
aged 47, wills to sons John, David, James, and Samuel ; and daugh- 
ters Phoebe Underhill and Catherine Powell. He had ten daughters, 
who married into the families of Powell, Underhill, Willets, Willis, 
and Hunt. 

John 4th of Somers had sons John and Robert. 

John 5th, Friends' preacher, who died 1850, invented " the cold 
water process " of making castor oil, and went west from New York 
State and bought land near Mt. Carmel, Illinois, to introduce raising 
the bean and making the oil. He married Malinda Parmenter of Mt. 
Carmel, daughter of Col. Isaac Parmenter and Sarah Utter Parmen- 
ter, who served in the war of 1812, the Mexican war, and the Black 
Hawk war. John Hallock's daughter Sarah, born April 17, 1768, 
married James Crane, born Oct. 14, 1763, died at Richmond, Vt., Aug. 
17, 1828, whose second wife was Clarinda, the sister of his first wife, 
born Aug. 12, 1781, married June 22, 1808, died at Fort Atkinson, 
Wis., Jan. 20, 1859. This John had four sisters, Martha, Mary, 
Phoebe, and Joicy. He had five sons, namely : 

John 6th, James C, New York, Allen C, Evansville, Ind., Richard 
B., Princeton, Ind., and Aaron B. of Mt. Carmel, 111., born in New 
Jersey in 1818, and now in his 89th year, his brothers being all dead. 
This Aaron B. had seven sons : 

John 7th, Wm. Penn, Aaron, Allen, Charles, Harry, and James H., and 
seven daughters, Mrs. Mary H. Shearer, Martha H. Newkirk, Lydia H. 
Royer, Isabel, and Kate H. Rigg. Collectively, they have 29 children. 
Allen and Wm. Penn live at Harrisburgh, 111., the others at or near Mt. 
Carmel. John 5th's brother, Robert of Somers, had six sons : James, 
father of Halsted Jesse of Katonah ; John of Yorktown, father of 
Henry and Edmund ; Robert R., father of Elbert of New York, and 
William S.; Edmund of Somers : Aaron of Yorktown, father of John 
R. and Oscar. Richard B. had five sons : Richard A., Charles, 
Henry, John, and William E., and five daughters, Lydia, Sarah R., 
Minnie M., Amy, and Eliza. Daughter Sarah married Rev. John 
Elliott Jenkins, a noted Presbyterian preacher, who organized seven 
churches in Indiana. He had daughters Mary, Minnie P, c ^ah K., 
wife of Allen U. Tomlinson of Whittier, California, and A., .id Ire 
lately a kindergartner of note at Coronado Beach, who lives with her. 



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The Tomlinsons have a daughter Kate. John Elliott Jenkin's son 
Philip married Mary Shearer, daughter of Jacob Shearer and Nancy 
Allen, who was daughter of Allen and Sarah Powell. Mary Shearer 
was daughter of Mary Hallock Shearer and granddaughter of Rich- 
ard B. James C. had two sons. James and Richard, and two daugh- 
ters, Francena and Lillie. James is a doctor in New York city, and 
the author of a work on silver coinage. He opposed the continued 
coinage of the trad'- dollar. Richard was a costumer in New York, 
was married, and left a wife and several children when he died. 
Allen C. had four sons, Allen, William, Walter, and Edward, and four 
daughters, Amy, Lillie, Kate, and Minnie. The two last named and 
Edward alone survn e. 

1 laniel, son of John 3d. died at Monroe, Orange county, 1830, had 
six sons: Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Martin, Richard, and Josiah H. t 
Jonathan died Stroudsburg, Pa., Aug. 7, 1S36, father of Wm. Penn, 
James, Samuel, and John : Daniel, father of Jesse R. of Brooklyn, 
who has suns Nathaniel P., Daniel W.. and William W. ; Samuel, 
father of Robert L. and Samuel, Wisconsin ; Martin died Highland 
Mills. X. Y.. April 13. 1 S 4 7 . aged 65, and had six sons: Allen C, 
father of James. Edward, and Henry: Thomas B., father of William 
H., Alanson, Thomas, and Obed; Charles, father of Martin L., John, 
and Herbert: James M., who has no son: William B. of Caroline, 
Tompkins county. X. Y., father of James H., Arthur, and William J. ; 
and John of Ithaca. X. Y.. father of John H. and William M. Richard 
was father of Daniel Esq. of Cincinnati. Josiah H., father of Stephen, 
Daniel, and Ebenezer 15. 

2. Edward Hallock, Friends' preacher, born April 8, 17 17, son of 
John 2d, settled, about 1762 in Marlborough, now Milton, Ul- 
ster county, eight miles above Newburgh, died Nov., 1809, aged 92, 
had two sons, Edward Jr. and James, and nine married daughters, 
most of whom had large families and lived to a great age, five having 
met in Milton when over 80. Edward Jr. died at Milton July, 1850, 
aged 96. had four sons : Edward and Jonas, who had no children, 
Silas, and Epenetus of Constantia, N. Y., father of David, Victor, and 
Edwar-' 

Jam... >eacher, died April, 1820, aged 58, had six sons : Nicholas, 
Townsend, Nehemiah, William. Edward, and Nathaniel. Nicholas 



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was father of Dr. Robert T. of New York, James and Nehemiah of 
Utica, and Samuel T., Riceville, Pa. William's sons, James, John, 
and William, settled in Mendon, N. Y. Edward was father of Valen- 
tine H. and Nicholas of Queens, L. I., and Isaac S. of Milton. Na- 
thaniel, father of Thomas B. of New York. To Nathaniel his grand- 
father Edward gave many of the above facts, tracing all the Hallocks 
he knew of to o?ie ancestor. At Milton lie the bodies of three grand- 
sons of James : Capt. Nathaniel Hallock Mann, Edward Hallock 
Ketcham, and John T. Ketcham, who bravely fell in 1863 and 1864 
at Port Royal, Richmond and Gettysburg. 

3. Samuel, who purchased 1,000 acres adjoining his brother Ed- 
ward, wills, 1783, to sons Elijah, John, Foster, and James, father of 
Sarah Y. of New York. Foster's sons were George of Milton, and 
Alexander, father of Henry and Joseph of Catskill. 

II. Peter Hallock, son of John 1st, born Setauket, L. I., 1689, 
moved to " Nine Partners," Dutchess county, now Washington Hol- 
low and vicinity, near Poughkeepsie, about 1750, died July 20, 1772, 
aged 8^, had six sons : Peter Jr., Moses, Thomas, Joshua, John, and 
Zebulon. 

1. Peter Hallock Jr.'s daughter Anna married Richard Keese, 
original proprietor of Keeseville, N. Y. By family records of Ander- 
son Keese and this Peter's great grandson, Isaac Hallock Allen of 
New York, he had four sons, Isaac, Israel, Peter 3d, and Joshua. 

Isaac was born in Brookhaven, 1753, was several years at Nine 
Partners and in Nantucket, and died at Hyde Park, N. Y., 1850^ aged 
97. His wife w r as an esteemed Friends' preacher, and their son Israel 
was father of the poet, Barnabus Hallock of Brooklyn. 

Israel, brother of Isaac, settled at Guilford, Conn., and was father 
of the poet, Fitz Greene Hallock of New York. 

Peter 3d, who married Mary, sister of Richard K 
Peru, near Keeseville, 1846, aged 82, had sons Jo.' 1, John 
Isaac, George, and Joseph A. Joshua was fathe: of Peter at Pe 
and Fitz Greene at Keeseville ; Rev. John Keese ">ck, fctfers 

Portage county, Ohio, of the Erie conference, fati • 1 . Elisha Arnold 
of Fayette, Iowa; Isaac W. of Conneautville, Pa ; and . Keese 

Jr., Esq. Isaac, judge, Oakfield, Iowa, father o- . :harc 
geon at St. Louis; Addison Esq., Isaac, and Me George, Esq, 



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of Peru, X. V., father of George P., and Charles H. Rev. Joseph 
Addison, at Palatine, Cook count}', 111., father of Addison. 

Joshua, son of Peter Jr., died Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., 1854, 
aged 84, father of John, who died at Lockport 1837, Benjamin in Mis- 
souri, Isaac at Glean, N. Y., and George \V., banker at Bath, 

2. Moses, son of Peter 1st, had five sons : Isaiah, Peter, Obadiah, 
and Edward and Isaac who had no sons. Isaiah settled in Westerlo, 
Albany county, X. V., had five sons: Isaac, Amos, Stephen, Moses, 
and Reuben. Isaac was father of Murray at Dormansville P. O. in 
Westerlo, of James at Deposit, Delaware county, and of Edward at 
Medway in New Baltimore, Greene county, Amos in Queensbury, 
Washington county : Stephen in Westerlo ; Moses and Reuben, in 
the west. 

Peter, son of Moses, settled in Westerlo, had five sons, Morris of 
Coxsackie, father of Mrs. Mary Jane Houghtaling ; William; John in 
Berne, Albany county, father of William and Josiah ; Peter Jr. of 
Coxsackie; and Doughty. 

Obadiah settled in Medway in New Baltimore, Greene county,N.Y., 
had two sons, Joshua, father of Obadiah S. and Morris C. ; and Isaiah, 
father of James, Edward, and Lester. 

3. Thomas, son of Peter 1st, Washington Hollow, died about 1806, 
aged about 70 (as stated by his granddaughter, Mrs. Maria William- 
son of Poughkeepsie), had three sons, Thomas Jr., Amos, and Arthur. 
Thomas Jr. settled and died in Coeyman's Patent, N. Y. Arthur, 
sheriff at Athens, Greene county, X. Y., had sons Thomas and Smith. 

Amos, died at Washington Hollow 1813, aged 60, had one son, 
James Cooley Hallock, who died 1S49, aged 67, was some time in 
Elizabethtown, Canada; in 1832 was an officer in the U. S. army at 
Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, and went up the Mississippi in the first 
steamer that reached St. Paul. His only son, Rev. John Clark Hal- 
lock, settled in 183S at Davenport, Iowa, and died near Mount Ver- 
non, Iowa, Oct. 7, 1S61, aged 51. He had six sons : William S. Hal- 
lock, Esq., St. Louis, Mo. ; Samuel H., Henry S., Emmet G., John 
C. Jr., and Charles of Mount Vernon, Iowa, the first three of whom 
bravely fought and suffered in our contest for the national life. 

4. Joshua, son of Peter 1st, died July 24, 1804, aged 6}, had two 
sons, George and Peter. 

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George, died Jan. 26, 1862, aged 85, had four sons: James H., 
Washington, Dutchess county, father of Lewis E., Hibernia P. O., 
Dutchess county, Alfred, George .P., Jersey City, and Egbert F. ; 
Joshua G., Montgomery, Orange county, born 1803, father of William 
H.; Thomas W.. Ashmore, Coles county, 111., father of George and 
James ; and William H. 

Peter, son of Joshua, settled in Wyoming, Luzerne county, Pa., 
about 1806, died about 1829, father of Israel, James, and Peter. 

5. John, son of Peter 1st, was father of Peter and Zebulon. Peter 
settled in West N. Y. Zebulon, died at Medvvay, Greene county, 
Aug. 29, 1853, aged 71, had two sons : Joseph Zubulon of Medway, 
father of Stephen P., David, Andrew, Leander W., and Charlie D.; 
and Rev. Leander of Milton, Rock county, Wis. 

6. Zebulon, son of Peter 1st, was father of Thomas, who died in 
Medway, April 23, 1841, aged 78, and had two sons : Matthew, father 
of Stephen, Edwin, and Daniel B. ; and Ezra of Saratoga county,N.Y. 

III. Benjamin, son of John 1st, had sons Benjamin and Stephen. 

1. Benjamin Jr., born Setauket, L. I., Sept. 13, 1729 ; was married 
Au g- 7, 1755^0 Phebe Prindle of the Congregational connection in 
Sherman, Conn., who died 1831, aged 91 ; settled near Gaylordsville, 
in New Milford, Conn., and died Nov. 18, 1796, aged 67, having eight 
sons: William, Daniel, Benjamin, Jesse, Benajah, Luke, Joseph 
Denton, Amos. William died 1842, aged 86, father of William of 
Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio; Benjamin; Jehiel of Franklin, N. Y. ; 
Russell. William of Palmyra died 1847, aged 64, had six sons : Wil- 
liam R. of Rootstown, Portage county, father of Gibbs, Joel C, Irving 
W., Elijah S. ; Miron of Bryan, Williams county, Ohio ; Elijah S. of 
Milton, Mahoming county, Ohio ; Homes W., Orange W., and Rus- 
sell C. of Newton, Trumbull county, Ohio. Daniel, died 1810, aged 
52, had five sons : William, Benjamin, died Oneonta, Otsego county, 
N. Y., father of David L. of Westbury, Cayuga county, N. Y., and 
John of Plymouth, Pa.; David, died Rochester, N. Y., i860, aged 67, 
had two sons, Erasmus D., father of Edward D., and Edwin R., father 
of Charles W.; Daniel of Kent, Conn.; Jesse of Warren, Conn. Ben- 
jamin, died 1837, aged 77, father of Daniel, Deerfield, Tioga county, 
Pa.; Adolphus; Ervin, Stillwater, N. Y.; Almon, died Gaylordsville, 
Aug. 29, 1864, aged 60; Charles, Farm Ridge, 111. Jesse, died Jan. 



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„ ,S,7 aged 73, father of Jesse H. and of Moses G, Farm Ridge, 
13, 1037, as,cu /j, ao-ed 72, father 

111. Banajah, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., died 1837, a„ec 17 . 
of Powell Illinois, and Abel, Oakfield, Mich. Luke Kent, Conn 
died .8« aged 6 9 father of Gerardus ; Curtis, Litchfield Conn, El- 
££ and Raphael, Kent, Conn. Joseph Denton, died ,863, aged £ 
ather of Nelson; Homer: Harvey; John, LaGrange, Dutchess 
county N V.. died ,8* aged 74, father of Amos .Washington, Conn. 
T^Stephe; son of Benjamin ,st, married aChamberhn ,n R d - 
mond Mass in .792 purchased the present residence of his relative, 
^S^ns vZ in Richmond, Vt, onth« Onion nv« r ^ween 
Mounts Mansfield and Camels Hump, and died Oct 3.. ' 8 <£ a » ed 

£nm£ nRichmond Vt Stephen Jr., father of Denton, Anson 
S'ltn 3 d. Benajah, Heman, and Samue^ied a, ^^^ 
Ohio. Content C. died in Lev,, count N Y had^s X ^ ^ 
Rufus, and George, lather of W al lace IV 01 eg Fhilan der 

eoh father of Rev. Edward Joseph of Castleton, vt., anu 

of Grand Blanc, Genesee county, Mich Setauke t) son of 

[V William, Brookhaven (Stony Brook near Setauket) ' S ^ 



Elizabeth. „ orT ,fira.e to " The Pur- , 

at what is now Hallock s Mills ^ u-i m 

f l remaining, where he ^S^^tSSr-C^ 

SSS'SSi: His ahlv son i-^^ss 



36 

Wright, James B., who all settled in the vicinity of the mills and Ed- 
mund P. of Peekskill, father of Edward J.; Jane, one of his five 
daughters, married David Hallock of Somers. 

2. William, born about 1722, lived many years in Stony Brook but 
was in Greenwich during most of the Revolutionary war, in which he 
suffered much in the command of picket boats on the Sound and 
d!ed about 1782. His wife was Sarah Saxton of Huntington, L I 
of the Episcopal connection, whose sister Harriet married Zephaniah 
Piatt, whose sons surveyed and settled Plattsburg, N. Y. After Mr 
Hallock's death she lived with her youngest daughter Anne (Mrs 
Lodow.ck Hackstaff) in Sing Sing and New York, and was buried in 
St Pauls churchyard, Broadway, 1806, aged 8 3 . Mrs. Hackstaff 
died in Brooklyn, Aug, 1841, aged 74. Elizabeth, the eldest of Wil- 
liam's twelve children, born Sept. 16, 1750, died 1846, aged 96, was 
mother of Hallock Bromley, father of Isaac W. R. Bromley Esq of 
New York. Three of William's five sons were George, an enterpris- 
ing shipbuilder in Stony Brook, and father of Joseph, George 2 d 
Benjamin, Charles D., Erasmus, and Nathaniel; William Jr & five 
years a volunteer in the war of the Revolution and one year prisoner 
in the old Sugar-house, New York, father of Zephaniah and Israel of 
Derby and Wm. W. of Brooklyn, shipbuilders; and Zephaniah Piatt 
Hallock, who died in New York 1831, aged 66, father of Charles S 
N ew \ ork ; of Charlotte W. of Tarrytown ; and grandfather of John 
Youngs Hallock, merchant in San Francisco. 

3- Richard, born May 13, 1724, married Sarah Ludlam, born July 
10, 1737, moved from Stony Brook to " Hallock's Mills " about 1784 
purchased of his brother Jesse half the mills and land adjacent, and 
died Feb. 12, 1821, aged 97. Of his three sons and eight daughters 
Henry, born Nov. n, I755 , died Aug. 6, 1824, was father of Charles' 
trustee of Methodist church, Stony Brook; of William, Norwalk' 
Conn., who died Oct., i860, aged 84, father of William W. ; of Henry' 
2d, born April 12, 1784 ; of Richard of Port Jefferson, born Feb 18 
1800, and of Mrs. Sarah H.Hulse of Brooklyn, born Oct. 27, 1790! 
Richard 2 d, born July I; , l77 o, died Aug. 17, lS53 , owned the mills, 
and had six sons : Henry, Stephen, David of Somers, Isaac, George 
and Joseph T. at the mills. Richard rst's daughter Susanna married 
Benj. Hodgden of Fairfield, Conn., and moved to Ohio; and his 



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daughters Dinah and Deborah married David Hallock, son of Jona- 
than of Setauket, and George Davis of Stony Brook. 

4. David, settled at Ferrisburg, Vt., had sons : Richard of Collins, 
Erie county. N. V. : Isaac, father of David, in Peru, near Keeseville, 
N. Y. : and Edward, at Peru, father of Earl of Scipio, Cayuga county, 
X. Y.. and Burling, whose wife Lydia was an esteemed Friends' 
preacher, and their daughter, Mrs. Aaron Mekeel of Searsburg, near 
Cayuga La!. 

V. Jonathan, son of John 1st, wills 1768 to sons Jonathan, Ger- 
shom, and Daniel : and Jonathan 2d, 1794. wills to his sons Jonathan, 
and David, father of Jonas. 

Jesse Hallock of Yorktown, Westchester. N. Y., wills (proven Feb. 
20, 1790) to wife Phoebe, son Jesse, and daughters Sarah, and Mary 
H. Underhill. 

Till-: DURSTINE OFFSET. 

5. John Hallock. 1760. 

6. Martin 1 Iallock, 1790. 

7. Allen C, father of James Henry and 1820. 

8. Edward Hallock. whose daughter Kate married 1850. 

9. ('.. D. Sarles, whose son 

10. John Hallock, born July 2, 1S26, died July 4, 1894, married Mary 
Reid Brooks, born June 16, 1S32, who had sons 

11. Will Rice, born May 23, 1861 ; Frank 13., born Aug. 18, 1862 ; 
John Hallock. born March 26, 1869, died Sept. 18, 1871 ; Jesse Eu- 
gene, born Sept. 11, 1S70, and Roy K,, born April 15, 1878, died Aug. 
23, 1SS2 : and daughters Kate, born May 21, 1S58, and Mary B., born 
June 30, 1S75, died Dec. 17, 1S75. Kate married Lee B. Durstine of 
Flatbush, X. V.. born Sept. 7. 185 1, and had sons 

12. John Jacob, born Sept. 27, 1884. died Feb. 21, 1885, and Roy, 
born Dec. 13, 1SS6 : and daughter Florence, born April 6, 1881. Will 
Rice married Delia Ferris, and has twin girls, Urna Mate and Verna 
Kate, born March 14. 1SS6. Frank B. married Emma Stuhel, born 
Feb. 26, 1S64, and had sons Fay, born 1890 : John S., deceased, and 
Frank Butler Jr.. born 1900: and daughter Mae, born 1891. Jesse E. 
married Frances Bowen, and has children Agnes B., born 1899, and 
John Hallock. born 1903. 



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CHAPTER III. 



INHERITED LONGEVITY. 



The Hallock family is noted for longevity. Subjoined is a list of 
64 pci -.us of record for two centuries whose ages average 87^ years. 
They are 1 tiiefly males, and probably comprise about two-fifths of 
the entire aggregate. A .meat many others are still livingwhose ages 
approximate 80 years, and quite a few between that figure and 100. 
It will be perceived that seventeen of those enumerated were 90 years 
Old and upward, and three over 100, which see : 






.! Died. 



Mrs Elizabeth Hallock 

it-granddaugh- 

| Peter Hallock . 

William 

Esther 

Esther Hallock Reeve 
Zei ubabel 
Zachariah 
John 



Caleb Jr 
Tame 
[eremiah 
Thomas 

William 
Peter 
Frederick . • • 
labez Halleck 1 
sp h Halleck" 

Noah 

William . . . . 
Moses • . . . 

John 

Zebulon . . . . 

Israel 

William . . . . 
Richard ... 
Israel 2d ... . 
Samuel . . . . 

Parker 

Elisha 

Jonathan . . . . 
Reeves 



1831 
1704 

1773 

1S00 

1^20 

1S42 



I v ^2 
1854 
I854 , 
[824 
1791 

1853 

1 So-* 

1773 

im> 

1837 



1814 

1862 
1S28 
1 S4 1 

1864 

1S44 
r824 

1S59 



Place of Death. 



. Old Aquebogue . 
. Mattituck • ■ • • 
. Mattituck . . • 
. Mattituck .... 
. Mattituck . . . 
. Mattituck . . • 
. Wawayanda, t • 
. Bridgewater. N. V. 
. Mattituck . • • • 
• Cayuga, N. Y ■ • 
. Smithrowrrs- . . 
. Riverhead • • • • 
. Mattituck . . . • 

. Ouogue 

. Westernville • • • 
. Westernville . . • 
. Mount Sinai. L. I. 
. Goshen, Mass. . • 
. Plainneld. Mass • 
. Catchogue . . . • 
. Greenville • • • 
. Wawayanda . r • 
. Worcester. X. Y - 
. Greenville . • • 



. Rome, X. Y 



Manorville . 
Canoe Place 



Age. 



.98 

.84 
.7? 
.87 

.78 

• 7i 

• 90 

.80 
.90 
.83 
.83 

• 74 
. 71 
. 94 
103 
. 72 
. 77 
.85 
. 77 
.84 
.87 
. 90 
. 78 
. 7o 

80 
'.87 

76 
.86 

.92 



■ t Grandfather and fator^J^^ their name with 

an e. 



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Place of Death. 



David 

John .... 
Edward . . 
Edward Tr . 
Peter 
Isaac 
Peter 3d 
Joshua . 
Thomas 
George 
Zebulon 
William 
Benjamin 
Benajah . 
Joseph D. 
Amos . . 
Jesse Jr. . 

ElizabethHaliockBro'm'lev 
Mrs. Lodovick Hackstaff' 
Richard 

wiiiiam ; ; : ; 

Richard 2d 

Nancy Horton Hallock' .' 

Wm. A. Hallock 

Mary A Hallock, his wife 
Leavitt Hallock, brother. 

Woman Hallock. brother . 

£itz Greene Hallock . . 

John Hallock . . . 

Francis Horton . . 

Marie Horton Edwards . 

Esther Hallock Hayden ..." 1862 

Dr Lewis Hallock ....... 1897 

Polly Hallock Braun . . 1890 



Greenwood 



Age. 



.... 71 

Milton ....".: S 

-Milton .' .' I .' ' ' " 'eg 

Poughkeepsie . . 

Hyde Park 

Peru, N. Y 

Bath 

Washington Hollow . 



Medway 

Gaylordsville, Conn 
Deerfield, Pa ... . 
Cattaraugus .... 

Lagrange 

Washington, Conn . 
vomers 



• J53 
■97 
. 82 

.84 
70 
85 
79 
86 

11 
72 
84 
74 
S3 
96 

74 
97 
84 



Brooklyn . . . 

Hallock's Mills 

Norwich, Conn 

Hallock's Mills. . . I 81 

Kiverhead .... 

New York • ..'.' 

New York ... 
Amherst. Mass .'.'.'. 
Cummington . 
Guilford. Conn .'.'.' 

Orange, N. Y 

Patchogue . 
Riverhead . 



Port Jefferson, X." Y. 



.97 

.86 

92 

79 

9 1 

U 



TOO 

[06 

.93 

. 94 
.89 




founders' monument, 
Southold, L. I. 




SOUTH CHURCH AND CHAPEL, 

New Haven, Ct. 
Built by Gerard Hallock, 1851-2. 



CH A l'TER I V 



HALLOCK REVOLUTIONARY RECORD 



From "New York in the Revolution." [see library of Congress], 
the names of Majors Peter, John, Richard, and Zachariah Hallock, 
are found in the regiment commanded by Col. Jacob Smith : ist 
Regiment Minute Men, Suffolk Co.. N. Y., Militia. 

Jonathan Hallick. soldier in Col. Lewis DuBois' 5th Regt. of the 

Line. 
[Nathan Hallock of Southold, L. I., died 1756, aged 28. Monument 

inscription, Southold.] 

Joseph, son of Major Peter, fell as commander of an armed vessel 
in the war of the Revolution by the last shot before the attacking 

force surrendered. 

William, born 1730, served in coast defence, and was in command 

of picket boats near New London, on Long Island Sound. He and 

W Zephaniah Piatt of Plattsburg. N. Y., married sisters. William died 

in 17S2. His son William was five years in the Revolutionary army, 

and for one year a prisoner in the old sugar house in Rose street, 

New York. 

William Hallock, born Southampton, L. I., 1730, died Croshen, 
Mass., Oct. 21, [815, at the age of 85, was in the army of the Revolu- 
tion with his sons Moses and Jeremiah. They enlisted in 1779, and 
served in New Jersey, Moses one term and Jeremiah two terms. 1 At 
the battle of Ticonderoga their father was a comrade of Capt. T. P. 
Lyman's grandfather, who captured a Queen Anne musket from a 
Hessian. The weapon bears the Tower mark, and is now in the pos- 
session of Packard, son-in-law of Widow Lyman, at Goshen. 






1 



« They enlisted only for three months at first, as we did in the civil war, because 
they thought it would be short. 



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Col. Micah W. Hallock, great-grandson of Zerubabel Hallock, was 
in the war of 1812. 

Joshua, son of Dea. Jonathan of Monroe, N. Y., was in the war of 
1812. His grandson, Capt. John Hallock, was in the Federal army. 

Gen. Henry Wager Halleck, son of Joseph, Westernville, Oneida 
county, N. Y., and his father were in the Federal army. Henry's 
brother Andrew was on his staff. Henry served also in the Mexican 
war. He held the position of Lieut.-General (succeeding Maj. Gen 
McClellan) from July u, 1S62, to March 12, 1S64, when he was super- 
seded by Gen. Grant. He was known in the army as Old Brains. He 
drafted the first constitution of the State of California. 

Capt. Frederick M. Hallock and Capt. Franklin B. Hallock were in 
the Federal army. 

Herbert T. Hallock of Clayton county, Iowa, had three sons who 
died in the army. Lieut. Charles C. of Brooklyn, son of William of 
Mattituck, was in the army. 

Capt. Nathaniel Hallock Mann, Edward Hallock Ketcham, and 
John T. Ketcham, grandsons of James Hallock of Milton, N. Y. died 
in the army. 

James Cooley Hallock, son of Amos of Washington Hollow, N. Y , 
was an officer in the U. S. army at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, in 
1832, and went up the Mississippi river in the first steamer that 
reached St. Paul. Win. S. Hallock of St. Louis: Samuel H: and 
Henry S., sons of John Clark Hallock of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, all died 
in the civil war in the Federal army. 



Collateral Genealogies. 



CHAPTER V 



MAYHEW GENEALOGY. 



i. Thomas Mayhew, first governor of Nantucket and Martha's- 

Vineyard. 

2. His daughter Hannah m. Thomas Daggett (2). 

3. Thomas Daggett m. Elizabeth Hawes. 

4. Mercy Daggett m. Matthew Norton (3). 

5. Desire Norton m. Robert Allen (5). 

6. Desire Allen m. Athearn Butler (5). 

Desire Allen married as her second husband Dea. Zachariah May- 
hew, who was born on Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 8, 1757, and removed 
to Williamsburg, Mass., 17S6. He died May 29, 1830. He was sixth 
in line from Gov. Thomas Mayhew. Desire Allen Butler was sixth 
from Gov. Mayhew. The male line ran out with Zachariah. Follow- 
ing is the lineage : 

1. Gov. Thomas Mayhew. 

2. Rev. Thomas Mayhew. 

3. Rev. John Mayhew. 

4. Rev. Experience Mayhew. 

5. Rev. Zachariah Mayhew. 

6. Dea. Zachariah Mayhew. 

Rev. Zachariah, the last of the five (5) missionaries to the Indians, 
married Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Dea. John and Margaret Homes 
Allen. 



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Gov. Thomas Mayhew became a resident of Watertown, near Bos- 
"ton, in 1636. The following inscription is on a memorial stone erected 
>by the citizens : 

HERE BY THE ANCIENT FORD 

THE LANDING AND THE WEIR 

WAS THE HOME STALL OF 

THOMAS MAYHEW, 

A LEADER IN WATERTOWN AFFAIRS 

FROM 1635 TO 1645. 

AFTERWARDS WITH HIS SON, 

THE REV. THOMAS MAYHEW, 

HE LABORED AMONG THE INDIANS 

AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 

He had been a merchant of Southampton, England, and was born 
in 1589. He died in Martha's Vineyard in 1681, in his 93d year. His 
first wife, Martha Parkhurst, died before coming to America. His 
second wife was Jane, widow of Thomas Paine. In 1641 he obtained 
a grant of Martha's Vineyard " and neighboring Islands," [see copy 
•of deed] from Lord Sterling, becoming proprietor and governor, and 
carrying on a missionary work for five (5) generations, through his 
descendants, keeping several hundred Indians out of King Philip's 
war. About the same time he bought the island of Nantucket from 
the royal agent, Sir Ferdinand Gorges, the consideration being £30 
and two beaver hats, " one for self (Mayhew) and another for wife," 
(which was more than the Dutch paid for the site of New York city.) 

DEED MADE TO THOMAS MAYHEW BY RICHARD VINES FOR 

MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 

(Deeds iii, 66, Secy's Office, Albany, N. Y.) 

I, Richard Vines, of Saco, Gent, Steward Genttil for Sir Ferdinand Gorges, Knt., 
Xord Proprietor of the Province of Main Land and the islands of Caparrock and 
Nantican, do by these presents give full power and authority unto Thomas May- 
hew, Gent, his heirs and associates, to plant and inhabit upon the islands of Capar- 
rock and Martha's Vineyard, with all rights and privileges thereunto belonging, to 
•enjoy the premises unto himself his heirs and associates forever, yielding and pay- 
ing unto the said Sir Ferdinand Gorges his heirs and assigns forever annually, as 



47 

two gentlemen indifferently by each of them chosen, shall judge to be meet by way 
of acknowledgement. 
Given under my hand this 25th day of Oct., 1641. 

RICH' 1 VINES. 
Witness : 

THOS. PAGE. 
ROBERT I.o.NG. 

Deed of Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew to 10 purchasers, on 
July 2, 1659. who are named in the instrument (deed iii, 56) as follows: 
Tristram Coffin, Thos. Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, 
Thos. Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe. John Swayne, and 
Wm. Pike, for consideration of "Thirty Pounds of Current Pay ' 
and " two Beaver Hats, one for myself and one for my wife," retain- 
in- a 10th part of all lands and privileges for himself, and a choice of 
two necks of land. 

'DEED FROM JAMES FFORRESTT TO THOS. MAYHEW & SON. 

(Deeds i. 17 : iii, 64, and iii, 76, Sec'y's Office, Albany, N. V.) 
These presents do witness That I James Fforrestt, Gent, who was sent over 
intDthesepartsui America by the Hon. Lord Sterling, with a commission of the 
ordering and disposing of all the islands lying between Cape Cod and Hudson's 
River . do hereunto grant unto Thomas Mayhew, at Watertown, Merchant, 
and to Thos. Mayhew, Ins son. free liberty to them, their heirs, and assigns, to plant 

and inhabit upon Nantucket and two small islands adjacent Provided, 

That Thomas Mayhew and Thos. Mayhew his son, or either of them ortheir as- 
signs do lender and pay yearly to the Hon. Lord Sterling, his heirs and assigns, 
such an acknowledgement as shall be thought fit by John Winthrop, Esq., the elder, 
or any two magistrates in Massachusetts Bay, being chosen for that end and purpose 
by the Hon. Lord Sterling or his Deputy ; and by the said Thos. Mayhew and Thos. 
Mayhew his son, or their assigns. 

It's agreed That the government that the said Thomas Mayhew and Thos. May- 
hew his son' and their assigns shall set up. shall be such as is now established in 
the Massachusettsaforesaid, and that the said Thos. Mayhew, and Thos. Mayhew 
his son and their assigns shall have as much privilege touching their planting, in- 
habiting, and enjoying of all and every part of the premises as by the Patent to the 
Patentees of the Massachusetts aforesaid and their associates. 

In witness hereof 1 the said James Fforrestt have hereunto set my hand and seal 
this 13th day of October, 1641. JAMES FFORRESTT. |seal.] 

PHILIP WATSON, Clerk. 

Witnesses : 

ROBERT CORANE. 
NICHOLAS DAVISON. 
RICHARD ST1LLMAN. 



1 Deeds and wills were first recorded in 1621. 



48 

In 1659 he sold the Vineyard to Tristram Coffin and others, reserv- 
ing a tenth for himself, and a corporation was formed for agricultural 
purposes, not for religious objects, as has been stated, thou-h the 
spiritual interests of the Indians were made the constant care of his 
tour lineal successors until 1692, when Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard 
and all outlying islands, became a part of the State of Massachusetts 
Grant and deed are on file at Albany, N. Y., because the islands were 
then dependencies of New York State. 

The venerable Mayhew house stands on a commanding eminence 
overlooking the pleasant harbor of Edgartown, incorporated in 1671 
The exact date of its erection is not known, but it must be two cen- 
turies old That it stands on the same spot occupied by some earlier 
home of the family there can be no doubt, as three stone grave mark- 
ers with initials, and a large boulder foreign to the locality, supposed 
to indicate the burial place of the venerable founder himself, are con- 
spicuous on an adjoining lawn. It is of the colonial type, a two-story 
structure with four great square rooms to the front, facing east to the 
harbor. Large fireplaces are arranged around the great chimney in 
every room, but that of the kitchen or " living room," is simply im- 
mense-large enough to accommodate the family almost within its 
recesses. There are thirteen rooms in the old mansion, exclusive of 
numerous halls, cupboards, etc. Two generations of the ancient 
family have occupied a spacious residence beside it since it ceased to 
be the family mansion. It is still owned by them, however, and is 
readily rented during the summer season for the great beauty of its 
location. The grandfather of the present proprietor, who died about 
the year 1838, aged 92, remembered when a lad of twelve years to 
have helped his father at reshingling the roof, and in those early days 
when inferior material was not put into houses, it must at least have 
been standing thirty or forty years. 

HALLOCK-MAYHEW ANCESTRY. 
This lineage runs through ten generations, as follows : 

1. Gov. Thomas Mayhew, of M. V. 

2. Thomas Mayhew, Jr., an only son of the original grantee, born 
1620, perished at sea in 1657, aged 37 , the vessel on which he had 
taken passage to England never having been heard of. 



49 

3 . John M ay hew, his oldest son, born in 1652, died Feb. 3, 1689, 
had brothers Matthew and Judge Thomas. Matthew succeeded his 
father as chief dignitary of the island, died Feb. 3, 1688, aged 37. 

4. Experience Mayhew, born 1673, died Nov. 29, 1758, aged 85. 

5. Zachariah Mayhew, born 17 17, died 1806, aged 89; the youngest 
son. 

6. Zachariah's only son, Zachariah Jr., was born 1757. Died in 
Williamsburg, Mass.. May 29, 1830. He removed to Williamsburg in 
1786. A brother of his, named Thomas, died some four years later. 
[Here the male line ran out.] His sister, Margaret Mayhew, born 
March, 1760, at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, married her cousin, 
Robert Allen, and had ten children, three sons and seven daughters. 

-. One of the sons named Ezra, married Desire Norton. Ezra's 
sister, Margaret Allen, or Peggy, married Moses Hallock of Goshen, 
Mass.. who moved with his parents, William and Alice Homes 
Hallock. from Southampton. L. I., where he was born in 1740. 

8. Ezra Allen's only daughter. Eliza, born at Chilmark, Aug. 28, 
1S00, married her cousin, Gerard Hallock, son of Rev. Moses Hallock, 
born in Plainfield, Mass., March 18, 1800, who had sons, William 
Homes, Charles, Leavitt, and Gerard, and daughters, Eliza, Caroline 
Mayhew Butler, and Mary. Leavitt, buried Dec. 7, 1839, was the first 
interment in the old New Haven cemetery addition, lot 64, northwest 

corner. 

9 William Homes, born at Chilmark, M. V., Aug. 26, 1826, mar- 
ried Julia Mack of Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 3, 1851, and had sons, 
William Gerard, and Gerard, and daughter, Laura Mack. His brother, 
Charles 1 , born in New York city, March 13, 1834, had three sons : 

,0 Charles, Edmund Lee, and Livingston, born in 1856, i860, and 
,S6- all of Brooklyn, N. Y. All died young. Charles was born in 
New Haven, Sept 1, 1856, and died Feb. 22, 1869. The other two 
were born in Brooklyn. 

> The town of Hallock, Minnesota, founded in 1879, was named for him. 



CHAPTER VI 



THE ALDEN-ALLEN PEDIGREE 



(OF SAMUEL ALLEN 2d, OF DUXBURY, WHO MARRIED 

SARAH PARTRIDGE.) 

The name Allen, same as Alan or Allan, is derived, according to 
Julian, from Aland, a wolf-hound : and Chaucer uses Aland in "the 
same sense. Bailey derives it the same from the British. Camden 
thinks it a corruption from Aliania, which signifies " sunbright." 
From the same we have Allen, Allin, Alleyne. In the Gaelic Alinna 
signifies exceedingly fair, handsome, elegant, lovelv. Irish, Aline, 
fair, beautiful. 



i. John Alden, born 1599, in 1623 married Priscilla Mullein. 

2. Their son, Joseph Alden, born 1626, married Mary Simmons. 

3. Isaac Alden, their son, born 1665, married Mehitabel Allen in 
1685. 

Mary Alden, daughter of Joseph and Mary Simmons Alden. born 
1680, in 1700 married 3d Samuel Allen, born 1680. 

4- Ebenezer, son of Isaac and Mehitabel Alden, born 1693. mar- 
ried Anna Keith in 1717. 

5. John Alden. 

6. Samuel Alden, born 1S07, died May 28, 1903, at Duxbury. Mass., 
aged 95 years and 5 months. 

Sarah Alden, daughter of Isaac and Mehitabel Alden, born 1636, 
married Seth Brett in 17 13. 

Matthew Allen, son of 3d Samuel Allen and Mary Alden, born 1708, 
married in 17.36 Sarah Brett, daughter of Seth and Sarah Alden. 



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Susanna Alden, daughter of Ebenezer and Anna Keith, born 17 19, 
married Ephraim Carey in 1738. 

Ezra Allen, son of Matthew Allen and Sarah Brett, was born in 
1739. In 1761 he married Phoebe Carey, daughter of Ephraim and 

Susanna Alden. 

Thus Ezra Allen married the daughter of an Alden. His mother 
was the daughter of an Alden, and both of his grandmothers were 
AldenS. His great grandfather by his mother was an Alden, and his 
wife was th • great granddaughter of his grandmother's brother. His 
mother was the granddaughter of his grandmother's brother. His 
father was first cousin to his wife's grandfather. His grandfather was 
brother to his wife's great grandmother, and his grandmother was 
sister to his wife's -real grandfather. 



THE ALLEN PEDIGREE' 

1. Samuel Allen, born in England, came with the Massachusetts 

colon v in 1630. 

- Samuel Allen zd, born in Duxbury, Mass., 1632. 

3. Samuel Allen 3d, born in East Bridgewater, Mass., 1660. 

4. Matthew Allen, born in East Bridgewater, Mass., 1703. 

5. Robert Allen, born in East Bridgewater, Mass., 1739- 

6. Zenas Allen, born in East Bridgewater, Mass., 1763. 

7. Ethan Allen, born in Tinmouth, Vermont, 1803. 

8. George Allen, born in Chazy, N. Y., 1S32. 
q. Frank Allen, born in Freedom, 111., 1855. 



1 Samuel Allen, of Braintree, among the first settlers of Duxbury, 
came over with the Massachusetts colony in 1630. Anna, his hist 
wife, died in 1641. Their children were : 

,. Samuel, born 1632 in Duxbury, married in 1658 Sarah Partridge. 

2. Joseph, born 1634, probably died young. 

3. James, born 1636, married Elizabeth Perkins 

4. Sarah, born 1639, married Lieut. Josiah Standish, son of Miles. 

iThisisaHne of pedigrees of Mrs. Juna J. Allen Lennon, of Bloomington, 111. 



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5. Mary, born in 1641, married in 1655 Nathaniel Greenwood. 
Ann Allen died, September, 1641. 

Samuel Allen married for second wife, Margaret. 

6. Abigail married in 1670 John Cory, son of John, of Somerset- 
shire, Eng. 

7. Joseph, born May 15, 1650, married Ruth Searles, Nov. 30, 1670. 
Second wife Rebecca about 1681, died April 25, 1702. 

Third wife, Lydia Holbrook, married June 27, 1704. 

He died March 20, 1726. 
Samuel Allen, of Braintree, Suffolk county, Mass. (Vol. of Wills, 
etc., 1667-83) has the following record : " To my son, James Allen.' 
To my son-in-law, Josiah Standish, who married Sarah Allen, a son 
of Miles Standish," etc. 

This James Allen, born in 1636, came to Martha's Vineyard with 
Josiah Standish and William Pabody in 1668-9, and bought land 
from the syndicate. He was the ancestor of all the Aliens of the 
Vineyard, the first of the name on the island. He married Elizabeth 
Perkins, who died July 25, 1714, aged 78 years. Had 11 children. 
John, his son, married Margaret Homes, March 1, 17 16, and died Oct. 
17, 1767. She was born Sept. 28, 1696, and died April 26, 1778, aged 
82. Had 12 or 13 children. One, Robert, born July 20, 1732, married 
Desire Norton on Dec. 21, 1752. For a second wife he had Mary 
Tilton, Nov. 21, 1792, who died June 10, 1S01. He had 10 children by 
the first marriage. 

1. Huldah, born Oct. 29, 1755, at Chilmark, died Nov. 8, 1826, mar- 
ried Sept. 9, 1775, Capt. J. Coffin, Edgartown. 

2. Ezra, born July 5, 1755, died March 30, 1833, married April 6, 
1797, Beulah Coffin, of Edgartown. 

3. Mary, born Feb. 3, 1758, died April 5, 1802, married Rev. Joseph 
Thaxter, of Hingham, born May 4, 1742, died July 18, 1829. 

4- Margaret, born March 22, 1760, died Dec. 29, 1831, married 
Sept. 12, 1792, Rev. Moses Hallock, born Feb. 16, 1760, died July 17, 
1837- 

5. Lois, born July 19, 1762, died 1840, married Dec. 18, 1783, James 
Allen. 

6. Robert, born April 10, 1765, died March 29, 1831, married Jan. 
10, 1793, Elizabeth Faunce, born Sept. 9, 1773, died June 9, 1835. 



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7. Desire, born Nov. 7, 1767, died Jan. 13, 1843, married Oct. 2, 
1788, Athearn Butler. Second husband, Zachariah Mayhew. 

8. Rebecca, born July 15, 1770, died 1806, married Sept. 12, 1792, 
Solomon Butler of Chilmark. 

9. Matthew, born June 7, 1773, married 1st wife Patience Allen. 
Second wife, Temperance, daughter of Ichabod , of Tisbury, 

M. V. 

10. Betsey, or Elizabeth, born May 7, 1776, died Aug. 12, 1846, 
married Feb. 21, 1799, Matt. Coffin, born Nov. 6, 1774, died Nov. 17, 

1820. 

Ezra Allen's only daughter, Eliza, born Sept. 30, 1800, married June 
2, 1825, Gerard Hallock, born March iS, 1S00. 

[See Hallock Pedigree.] 



.sAMUEL ALLEN PEDIGREE. 

1. George Allen, born in England about 156S, came to America 

1635. 

2. Son Samuel Allen, born in England, came to America in 1628, 
died lune 5, 1669. in Braintree, married Ann (first wife), died Sept., 

1 64 1. 

3. Son James Allen, born 1636, died July 25, 17 14, aged 78, married 

Elizabeth Perkins, died Aug. 8, 1722, in 79th year. 

4. Son Major John Allen, born 16S0, died Oct. 17, 1767, at Mar- 
tha's Vineyard, married Margaret Homes, daughter of Rev. Wm. and 
Katharine (Craighead) Homes, born Feb. 28, 1696, died April 26, 1778. 

5. Son Robert Allen, born July 20, 1732, died Jan. 10, 1801, at Mar- 
tha's Vinevard, married Dec. 21, 1752, Desire Norton, daughter of 
Matthew and Mary (Daggett) Norton, born July 10, 1731, died June 

j 7 1 792. 

6 Son Robert Allen, born at Chilmark. M. V., April 10, 1765, died 
March 29. 1831, at Arcadia, N. Y., married Jan. io, i 7 93, at Williams- 
burg, Elizabeth Faunce, born Sept. 9, 1773. died June 9, 1835, at Ar- 

'7. Son Robert Allen, born April 16, 1803, at Somerset, Vt., died 
March 24, 1S70, at Westfield, Mass., married 1829 at Russell, Mass., 



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Amaret Sperry, born May 24, 1809, at Russell, died Oct. 22, [870, at 
Westfield. 

8. Children Dwight Allen, born July 15, 1830, at Westfield, Mass., 
died Jan. 6. 1S6S, in New York, married Oct. 10, 1858, in New York, 
Jennie Dinan, born June 5, 1840; and 

Sarah Ann Allen, born June 11, 1838, at Westfield, Mass., died Oct. 
18, 1903, at Springfield, Mass., married Jan. 7, 1857, in Westfield, Ed- 
gar S. Sweatland, born Jan. 25, 1836, in East Longmeadow. Mass., 
died Dec. 5, 1898, in Springfield. 



THE JAMES ALLEN PEDIGREE. 

1. James Allen, born 1762, at Chilmark, M. V, married Louisa 
Allen, daughter of Robert of the same place; not his own cousin. He 
was a very large man, of herculean strength, and weighed 300 pounds. 

2. James Allen Jr., born at Chilmark, 1783, married Cynthia Cot- 
tle at same place, died Zanesville, O., 1S47. All came to Zanesville in 
18 15, and all are buried there. Their children were : 

1. Leander, born at Chilmark, M. V., 1804, married Mary A. Bar- 
ton of Ohio, died April, 1882. 

2. Lois, born Chilmark, 1806, married Smith. 

3- John C. Allen, born Jan. 27, 1809, at Chilmark, married Nancy 
Kirtland of Maumee, O., died Feb., 1895, aged 84. 

4. James B. Allen, born Muskingum ; moved to Illinois in 1859. 
In 1861, enlisted in the infantry ; was fatally wounded at Shiloh, 1862. 
Married Margaret Dawson, who died after he did. James Allen was 
one of the family of ten, and a brother of Ezra Allen. Leander Allen 
and his sons who were old enough enlisted in 1861, and John C. had a 
son, James, who was in the war. William, a brother of J. A., Sen., 
was a judge at Portland, Me. 

5. George C. Allen, of Estherville, Iowa, son of John C. Allen. 
Edgar W. Allen, son of Leander, of Zanesville. 



A number of Aliens came first to New Haven, not with the Mas- 
sachusetts colony, and are therefore possibly of different antecedents 
and extraction. From New Haven they gradually moved up through 



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the Connecticut valley as far as West Springfield, a part of which is 
now the city of Holyoke, and in due course met up with the Aliens 
who had moved to Northampton from Martha's Vineyard. Migrations 
took place at various times from the Island. One very early migra- 
tion occurred in .657. when one Samuel Allen, a single man, came 
with his sister Sarah to Northampton, where he was married to Han- 
nah Woodford in 1658, as shown by the parish register of the Edwards 
church. Their son, Samuel Jr., was deacon in that church in 1727. 
His son Thomas died in 1754. A nephew of Samuel, Joseph Allen, 
W as great grandfather to Judge William Allen, of Portland, Maine, 
other Aliens mentioned in Rev. Soloman Clark's " Historical Cata- 
logue of Northampton First Church." are Thomas Allen, grad. Har- 
vard .76,. and first minister at Pittsfield; Moses Allen, grad. Prince- 
ton 1772, who went to Virginia and South Carolina; Major Solomon 
Allen who served in the Revolutionary war, entered the ministry in 
180*. at the age of 50, and organized four churches in Western New 
York • Phinehas Allen, father of Rev. Sam Allen and Phinehas Jr., of 
Pittsfield, Nehemiah Allen, Joseph Allen, Ethan Allen, William Allen 
and Elijah Allen of Roberts Meadow, who married Louisa Clark of 

Westhampton in 1849. 

There are many Aliens scattered throughout the Connecticut towns 
who are in no way connected with the early settlers who came to 
Northampton. Lots of them are crossed with the Smiths and Ives. 
I me William Ives, who was born in 1607, came from England to Bos- 
ton in ship <« Truelove " about 1635. He was one of the original set- 
tlers of Quinnipiac, or New Haven. His son, Capt. Joseph ^Ives 
married Mary Vale, daughter of Thomas Yale, who was father of 

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale College. 

The most famous of these Aliens was Gen. Ethan Allen, who de- 
manded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga "in J^V*^ 
Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress, by God! and the next 
was Amos Allen, who was with Gen. Ethan at tet^anda^ 
the French and Indian wars; was captured and taken to Canada 
where he was sentenced to - run the gantlet.'' How ^ escaped almost 
certain death by this ordeal is related by his living relaUve Howari 
B Yllen of Newton, Mass., whose father, Hiram B. Allen, used to 
* on the old soldier's knee and heard him tell the story, receiving it 



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in turn from him. "To run the gantlet," he said, "means sure 
death. The Indians range themselves in two files, facing each 
other. First came the warriors, then the braves, then the bucks or 
young men who have not been to war, then the women and children 
each armed with clubs, tomahawks, knives, etc., striking the prisoner 
anywhere or way they can. Amos knew this. He, being very swift 
of foot and very spry, started away back from the head of the file to 
run. Just as he got to the head of the file he stopped suddenly, seized 
the club of the first warrior, then running down the file swinging the 
club around his head ; whereupon the Indians fell back to escape the 
club ; thus he got through safely. For such bravery they spared his 
life and gave him liberty about the camp, but must return every night. 
They put so much confidence in him that he soon escaped." 

5- This Amos Allen was born Sept. 15, i 734 , married Dinah Bishop 
of New Haven Dec. 11, 1760, born Oct. 7, i 739 , died Oct. 11, 18*9 
aged 90. He died Jan. 26, 1818 ; had son 

6. Bishop Allen, born North Haven, Conn., May 15, 1766, died in 
Holyoke, Mass., April 22, 1845. Married Polly Ann Smith Dec 24 
1786, born March 8, 1767 : had son 

7- Lysander Allen, born West Springfield, Mass., Feb. 12, 1791 
died July 17, 1855, married Eleanor Hull Ives of West Springfield 
Dec. 14, 1814, who was born Oct. 30, 1795, died Dec. 1, 1863 ; had son 

8. Merwin Allen, born June 10, 1S25. married Lucy Ann Smith 
Nov. 11, 1847, who was born at Northampton, Mass., Sept ? 1810 
and died Dec. 12, 1S63. Had son ' 

9- Hervey L. Allen, born Aug. u, 1859, now living at Princess 
Bay, N. Y., and has children. 

Many valuable records of this Allen family were burned at North 
Haven, Conn., during the war of 1812, so that the cue between the 
earliest settlers and intermediate descendants has been lost. 

THE SCOTCH ALLENS. 

A third group of Aliens seems to be of Scottish origin, and to 
have descended from the ten sons and three daughters of a notable 
Scot and his wife, who came to America in 1630 and settled in the 
southeastern part of Massachusetts, near or in what is now Rhode 



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Island. These facts and what follows have been contributed by 
George Allen, of Raleigh, X. C, aged 73, whose father, Rev. Darius 
Gushing Allen, married Eliza A. Slover of Newbern, and was a 
preacher for many years in the state of North Carolina in the early 
part of the century, and afterward moved to Ohio, near Columbus, 
and then to Lewistown, 111., where he organized churches, and died 
in 1839 and was buried, his wife then returning to Newbern. The 
records show that these older settlers were men of godly character, 
occupied leading positions in the community, and a number were men 
of me. ins. 

Joseph Benjamin Allen was born about 1725, near Providence. He 
had three sons and one daughter. 

From probably next generation four brothers, Benjamin, Joseph, 
Elisha and Hezekiah, were descended, all men of piety, and all lived 
to old age. The children of Benjamin Allen and his wife Mary were 
Abel, Darius and Benjamin; possibly others. 

From Benjamin Allen, who was a merchant at Hudson, X. Y., are 
descended Rev. Benjamin Allen, Episcopal minister; Rev. Thomas 
G. Allen, both of Philadelphia, and the latter's grandson, Allen 
Childs, now living in Philadelphia. 

From Darius Allen, who married Mary Brown, (whose ancestor, 
Chairs Brown, with Obadiah Holmes, Roger Williams and others, 
purchased the land from the Indians and laid out Providence, and 
who gave the campus and a large sum of money to organize Brown 
university), Rev. Darius Cushing Allen and Jeremiah X. Allen were 
descended. 

From Abel Allen was descended Henry Allen, and the Potters of 
Boston: Dr. W. H. Potter, dentist and Harvard professor, who mar- 
ried Mary, daughter of George Allen of Raleigh, thereby completing 
the circuit. 



THE DAGGETT PEDIGREE. 

John Daggett came from Groton, England, in the fleet with Win- 
throp, Oct. 19, 1630, and was in Watertown, Mass. He went to 
Martha\s Vinevard with Thomas Mayhew in 1641. His first wife is 



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not kaown. His second wife was the widow Bathsheba Pratt, of 
Plymouth, married Aug. 29, 1667. 

2. Son Thomas, born about 1630 at Watertown, married about 
1657 Hannah Mayhew, born at Edgartown April 15, 1635, died 1722. 
He died at Edgartown in 1691. 

3. Son Thomas, born 1658 at Edgartown, died Aug. 25, 1726, mar- 
ried in 1685 Elizabeth Hawes, daughter of Edmund Hawes, of Yar- 
mouth, who died Dec. 25, 17 15. 

4. Daughter Mary Daggett, born Aug. 8, 1698, died Dec. 13, 1779, 
married at Edgartown, 1723, Dr. Matthew Norton, son of Benjamin 
and Hannah Norton, grandson of Nicholas and Elizabeth Norton^ 
born April 12, 1696, died Dec. 5, 1779. 

Dea. Benjamin Daggett, born 1691, died in Maine in 1783, married 
in 1734 Margaret Homes, who was buried in Edgartown, May 3, 1783. 
They had children — 

1. Elizabeth, bapt. at Edgartown April 20, 1735, married at Edgar- 
town, Nov. 3, 1757, Samuel Whelden. 

2. Catharen, born at Edgartown 1736, married Feb. 7, 1762. 

3. William, born at Edgartown Nov. 18, 1738, died Sept. 14, 1740. 

4. Timothy, born at Edgartown Jan. 31, 1740-1, died Feb. 3, 1741-2. 

5. Benjamin, born in Edgartown Dec. 1, 1742. 

6. John, born at Edgartown Nov. 4, 1774. 

7. Hannah, born at Edgartown, bapt. Jan. 28, 1748, married Sept. 
21, 1769, to Thomas Stewart. 

8. Mary, born at Edgartown, bapt. May 5, 1757. 

These children are the fifth generation of Daggetts. 

5. Daughter Desire Norton, born July .0, 1731, died June 13, 1792,. 
at Martha's Vineyard, married Robert Allen, born 1732, died 1801. 



BUTLER PEDIGREE. 

Nicholas Butler, yeoman, of Dorchester, Mass., came with his wife,. 
Joise, and three children from Eastwell, Kent county, England. He 
removed to Martha's Vineyard in 165 1. 

1. Nicholas Butler had son 



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2. John, who married Mary , and had four children. Died ; 

July, 1658. From him descended all the Butlers of the Vineyard. 
His son 

3. John Butler married Priscilla Norton. 

4. Samuel, son of John. 

5. Samuel 2d, his son, was born Dec. 25, 1727, in Edgartown, died' 
in Providence June 29, 1814, aged 85, married Mary Athearn, daughter 
of Jethro and Mary Athearn, of M. V., about 1750. She was born 
Sept. 16, 1731, died Jan. i, 18 19, aged 88, in Providence. 

6. Athearn Butler married Desire Allen, Oct. 2, 1788, and had chil- 
dren — 

7. Clarissa Allen, born July 24. 1789, died Nov. 3, 1819, at Charle- 
mont, Mass., married C. B. Hawks, Feb. 26, 1811, at Williamsburg, 
lie was born March 19, 1784. died Jan. 24, 1S74. 

Sophia married Benjamin White. She was born May 6, 17 -, died 
|an. 24. 1S74, at Williamsburg. 

Desire married Ira Atkins. She was born Oct. 22, 1799. Mary 
Ann Bodman, the last of her children, died 1867. 

Cordelia, born Dec. 12, 1S03. married Sept. 28, 1820, Calvin B.. 
Hawks, born March 19, 1784, died Jan. 24, 1874. 

Mary Ann married Erastus Bodman, died 1867. 

Caroline married Rev. Wm. Adams. She was born in Williams- 
burg Sept. 2S, 1808, died Sept. 18, 1830. 

S. Rev. Theron H. Hawks, son of C. B. and Cordelia, born Oct. 

24. 1 82 1 . 

ATHEARN PEDIGREE. 

1. John Athearn, of Martha's Vineyard, came there from New 
Hampshire: married Marv Butler : was Representative in 16- first 
under the new charter. He had issue: Solomon, Jetters, Zereah,. 

Simon, Jethro. 

2. Simon married Mary Butler. 

8 Jethro married Mary Mayhew, daughter of Pari Mayhew ,. 
Sept. 8, 1720. She was born Sept. 26, 1700. Jethro was a prominent 
man. Their daughter 

4. Mary married Samuel Butler. 



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5. Their son, Athearn Butler, married Desire Allen. 
Solomon Butler, brother of Athearn, married Rebecca Allen, sister 
of Desire. 

NORTON PEDIGREE. 

1. Nicholas Norton had son— 

2. Benjamin Norton had son— 

3. Dea. Matthew Norton, born April 12, 1696, married Mary Dag- 
gett. Died Dec. 5, 1779. He had a son— 

4. Col. Beriah Norton, of Edgartown, and a daughter, Desire, who 
married Robert Allen. 

5. Edwin Norton married an Allen, who was the mother of Madam 
Nordica, the singer. 



CHAPTER VII. 



NORTON-ALLEN PEDIGREE. 



i. Nicholas Norton, colonist from England, had son 

2. Benjamin, who had son 

3. Dea. Matthew Norton, born April 12, 1696, died Dec. 5, 1774, 
and married Mary Dagget. He had son 

4. Col. Beriah Norton of Edgartown, Mass., and a daughter De- 
sire, who married Robert Allen, born July 28, 1732. [Robert was 4th 
generation from Samuel Allen.] They had ten children : 

1. Huldah Allen, born 1775, married Capt. Coffin of Edgartown. 

2. Ezra, born 1797, married Beulah Coffin of Edgartown. 

3. Mary, born , married Rev. Joseph Thaxter of Hingham. 

4. Margaret, born 1792, married Rev. Moses Hallock. 

5. Lois, born 17S5, married James Allen. 

6. Robert, born 1795, married Elizabeth Faunce. 

7. Desire, born 178S, married Athearn Butler. 

8. Rebecca, born 1792, married Solomon Butler of Chilmark. 

9. Matthew, born 1775, married Patience Allen, 2d wife Temper- 
ance Allen. 

10. Betsey, born 1779, married Matthew Coffin. 
Ezra's only daughter Eliza married Gerard Hallock June 2, 1825. 



CHAP T E R V 1 I I 



HALLOCK-CORWIN CONNECTION. 



Silas Corvvin, born 1731, died March 1, 1806, married Elizabeth 
'Hallock, born Sept., 1731, died Feb. 12, 1831, aged 99. She was 
daughter of William Hallock, son of Peter 2d, and had brothers Wil- 
liam Jr., Benjamin, and Samuel. The first named married a sister of 
Richard Corwin, who married Hannah Hallock Dec. 31, 1789, and 
whose eldest son, Richard Jr., died at Brookhaven March, 1882 ; the 
father of Sylvester N., whose eldest son was Chester D., whilom of 
New York city. Silas and Elizabeth aforesaid had children Silas J., 
Amlah, Ezra, Mary, Peter. Jabez, Daniel, and Elizabeth, all of whom 
are buried at Jamesport, L. I. Ezra died April 24, 1840, and his wife 
April 23, 1841. They had son Samuel Baldwin Corwin, whose daugh- 
ter Mary E. married Benedict of Janesville, Wis., where he 

died Oct. 14, 1S84, aged j6 years, his wife soon following. 

Matthias Corvvin, born Feb. 19. 1761, in Morris county, N. J., died 
1829, moved to Pennsylvania, then to Kentucky, from there to Ohio, 
married Patience Hallock in Fayette county, Pa., April 8, 1782. They 
had children: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Matthias, Mary, Hon. Thomas, 
Jesse, Rhoda, Phoebe, and Amelia. 

Richard Corwin married Hannah Hallock Dec. 31, 17S9. (Aque- 
bogue Records. No other dates given.) 

Mary Corwin, born about 1795, died about 1839, married Bethuel 
Halleck. (No date of birth, death, or marriage given.) One child, 
Bethuel E. Halleck, born 1814, died May 6, 1841, buried at James- 
port, L. I. 

Emma Corwin, born Feb. 4, 1S37, married George W. Hallock Feb., 
1857. Child, Georgiana. Upper Aquebogue, L. I. 



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Selah Corwin, baptized at Mattituck Jan. 16, 1757, married (no date 
of marriage)' Johanna Halleck, born 1757, died May 11,-1846. Chil- 
dren : Rachel, Joanna, Lydia, Selah, Elizabeth, Lydia, Lucretia, 
Maria, and Peter. Rachel, the oldest child, was born in 1785. 

Harriet D. Halleck, bom Dec. 13, 1S65. (No other record ) 

Hester Osman, whose mother's maiden name was Sarah Corwin, 
mat ried Z. I lallock, 1720. 

James Corwin. baptized at Mattituck Aug. 15, 1762, died March 9, 
1832, married Catherine Halleck, born 1774, died May 28, 1824. Chil- 
dren : Charlotte, Joseph, Laura, and Sarah. Southold, L. I. 

Robert Corwin, born 1792, died 1858, married Margaret Hallock. 
Children : Julia, Sarepta, Hannah M., John R., and Josiah F. Bait- 
ing Hollow and Riverhead, L. I. 

Ai, orwin, born Feb. 14. 1792, died Oct. 4, 1861, married Eliza- 

beth Halleck Aug. 23, 1817. Children: DeboralnA., George W., 
I laniel A., Anson I... I irotius S., and Lucretia. (No date of birth or 
death of this Elizabeth Halleck. Their son Daniel A., born May 20, 
1822, married tor his second wife Maria M. Hallock.) Riverhead, L. I. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ALLEN-COFFIN PEDIGREE. 



John Coffin, who married Deborah Austin, having previously re- 
moved to Nantucket with his father Tristram, in the year 1662, and 
by her had son 

8. Enoch Coffin, died 1763, married Beulah Eddy June 25, 1718, 
and had by her ten children : Lou Coffin, born Sept. 13, 1702, died 

, aged 80; Hepzidah, born Sept. 7, 1704, died , aged 90 ; 

Elizabeth, born 1706, died , aged 73 ; Abigail, born Jan. 25, 1708, 

died , aged 88; John, born April 6, 17 10, died , aged 82; 

Enoch, born March 1, 1712-13; Deborah, born July 14, 1715 ; Benja- 
min, born Jan. 26, 1718, died , aged 75 . Daniel, born Jan. 23, 

1720, died , aged 70 : Beulah, born Oct. 16, 1726. On March 24, 

1802, Beulah was in his 78th year. 

9. Benjamin Coffin, born June 25, 1718, died Oct. 2, 1793, who 
married Eliza Norton, born March 23, 1727, died Jan. 28, 1810, daugh- 
ter of Matthew Norton, 1 Sept. 1, 1743, resided at Edgartown, M. V., 
and had by her 

10. Matthew Coffin, born Nov. 6, 177 1, died Nov. 17, 1820, aged 49, 
who married Betsey Allen, who died Aug. 12, 1846, aged 70, daugh- 
ter of Robert and Desire Norton Allen of Chilmark, M. V., Feb. 21, 
1799; removed to Williamsburg, Mass.; had sons Robert Allen and 
James Henry, both professors in Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; 
Hon. Edward M., Omaha, Neb., and Charles E., Univ. Place, Neb., 
and daughter Lucy, who died at Easton in 1870, aged 65. 

'Both grandmothers of James Henry were daughters of Matthew Norton. Robert 
and James H. were nephews of Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, Mass , and were 
educated by him at his classical school 




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PORTLEDGE— THE COFFIN MANOR, 

Near Biddeford. England ; 900 years old. 



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ii. James Henry, LL.D., born Sept. 6, 1806, died Feb. 6, 1873, 
married Amelia M. Jennings of Dalton, Mass., born 1807, died 1850, 
whose only son was 

12. Selden Jennings Coffin, Ph.D., born Aug. 3, 1838, married 1st 
wife Mary A. Angle of Belvidere, N. J., born 1850, died April 9, 1889; 
2d wife her sister Emma Frances. Sons by 1st wife 

13. Edward Wells, born Jan. 16, 1884; James Henry 3d, born 
1881, died an infant. 

Robert Allen, born 1S00, married Wealthy Arms of Conway, Mass., 
and died '877, aged 77. His wife died soon after. Had three daugh- 
ters, all dead, one of whom, Mrs. Ada J. Chaplin, became an authoress 
of note of children's books, prize volumes, etc. 

THE STRAIGHT COFFIN PEDIGREE. 

5. Peter Coffin married Joanna Thumber, and residing in Brixton, 
Devonshire, England, had by her 

6. Tristram Coffin, who married Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, widow of 
his brother, John Tristram Coffin, was of the 6th generation from Sir 
Richard Coffin, to whom was granted the ancient family seat of the 
Corfyns [keepers of the royal coffers] in Devonshire, England, for 
services rendered to " Wm. the Conqueror " in 1029. The estates 
still remain in the Coffin family, and the ancient parish church and 
manor house at Portlege and Brixton, which were built over 900 years 
ago, are still in good order and occupied. Mr. Charles E. Coffin of 
Minskirk, Md.. a direct lineal descendant, has photographs of both, 
as well as of family oil portraits which hang on the manor house 
walls, taken in 1S76 by his daughter while on a visit to the ancestral 
home. Tristram Coffin abandoned his estates and came to America 
in 1642 to escape the troubles of that period, which even Oliver Crom- 
well himself essayed to do. [See published records.] .He landed at 
Newburyport, Mass., where he located, and had by his wife Dionis in 
1646 sons John and 

7. Tristram Jr., who married Judith Somerby, March 2, 1653, and 
had son 

S. Peter, who married Apphia Dale, who had son 

9. Tristram, who married Dorothy Tufts, who had son 

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io. Peter [1723 to 1796], who married Mary Currier, who had son 

11. William, who married Mary Langdon, and had son 

12. Edward Langdon Coffin, who married Nabby Ellery Foster, 
and had son 

13. William Edward, who married Margaretta Cotton, who had son 

14. Charles E., born July 18, 1841, and married, 1863, Catherine 
Rumford Jones of Wilmington, Del., and has seven living children : 

15. Nattie L., Rachel J.. Ellery Foster, Marian T., Mary Kate Coffin 
Cassard, Harriet Coffin Belfield, and Constance H., and three grand- 
children. 

16. Charles Edward Coffin Belfield, Henry Belfield, and John Cot- 
ton Belfield. 

Stephen, another of Tristram Jr/s twelve children, born Newbury- 
port 1665, married Sarah Atkinson 1685, whose twelfth child, Joseph, 
born 1706, married Olive Fowler for second wife 1750, and their 
youngest son, John, born 1757, married Mary Palmer 1781, whose 
.first son, Henry C, married Tabitha Bootman. [He was one of the 
founders of the Amesbury carriage business.] Their son, John 7th, 
born in Newburyport, 1810, married Abigail, daughter of Eliphalet and 
Elizabeth Currier Wadleigh, born in 1815. [Mrs. Wadleigh died in 
1890 at the age of 98.] Their son John Henry of Walden, born Sept. 
20, 1839, married Maria G. Swett of Wales, Maine, and had four chil- 
dren, namely : John H. Jr., who married Florence Steers and has 
two children ; daughter Mary Abby, who married James A. Fynes 
and has daughter Pauline : Hester Alice, who died at 30 ; and Alison 
Emery, w^ho married Flora V. Spofford. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE HOMES PEDIGREE. 



William Homes, born in the north of Ireland in 1663, as per preface 
to his hook on " Family Government," printed at Boston after his 
death in 1746, (though some say he was born in Scotland), came to 
America in 16S6, and taught school for three years at Tisbury, after- 
ward Chilraark, M. V., which island was then under New York juris- 
diction. Returning then to Ireland he married Katherine, daughter 
of Rev. Robert Craighead, who had been a minister at Donoughmore, 
in Donegal, but was transferred to Derry in 1690, where he 
served until his death in 1711. In 17 14 Rev. Homes came 
back to America in his 50th year and settled at Chilmark as 
pastor, where he died in 1746, at the age of 83, as per grave- 
stone in the Chilmark cemetery. His wife Katherine died in 1754, 
aged 82. They had three sons and three daughters, viz.: Rob- 
ert, Margaret, Jane, Hannah, John, and James. Robert married 
Mary Franklin, the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin. Margaret 
married Dea. Benjamin Dagget, 1734. Jane married Sylvanus Allen. 

[See Dagget and Allen pedigrees.] 

James Allen, who was born in 1636, came to Martha's Vineyard 
with Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Miles Standish and William Pa- 
body, in 1668-69. He was the ancestor of all the Aliens of Martha's 
Vineyard. His son John Allen married Margaret Homes March 1, 
1716, and died Oct. 17, 1767. She was born Sept. 20, 1696, and died 
April 26, 1778, aged 82. They had twelve or thirteen children. One 
of them, Robert Allen, had son Ezra, whose only daughter Eliza mar- 
ried her cousin, Gerard Hallock of the New York Journal of Com- 
merce, 



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i. Wm. Homes of Ireland had son 

2. Capt. Robert, born 1694, died 1727, who had son 

3. William Homes, born 17 17, died 1785, who had son 

4. William Homes, born Boston 1742, died 1S25. 

5. Henry Homes, born Boston 1776, died 1845. 

6. Henry A., born in Boston in March, 1812, and died at Albany, 
N. Y., Nov. 3, 1887. He was State Librarian for thirty years. Had 
son 

7. Dr. Henry F. Homes of New York, born Constantinople April 
20, 1S47. 

The following complete biographical sketch was prepared by Henry 
A. Homes for Rev. Dr. W. A. Hallock, D. D., of the American Tract 
Society, in 1S63 : 

•• William Homes first came to America in the year 1686, when he 
was twenty-two years old. There is no known record of the fact 
whether he came from Ireland at that time or from Scotland, though 
the former has usually been assumed. It was about the period of his 
first coming over that both Scotch and Scotch-Irish commenced emi- 
grating to America to escape the persecution of the Stuarts and the 
Prelacy. On W. Homes' arrival he engaged as a teacher at Chilmark, 
then in Tisbury, Duke's county, which was then and continued to 1692, 
to be under the jurisdiction of the government of New York. At this 
time there were on the island about 3000 native Indians, of whom 
nearly one-half were Christians, converted under the labors of the 
Mayhews. Chilmark embraced the Cape of Gay Head, where to this 
day live the only remnant of the Indians. The English continued to 
employ him here as a teacher to their children for three years, when 
he returned again to Scotland, and pursued the course of study of 
the University of Edinburgh. He received the degree of Master of 
Arts from the University March 2, 1693. 

" He was ordained a clergyman Oct. 21, 1692, at Strabane, a borough 
town twelve miles southwest of Londonderry by the Presbytery of 
Convoy, and was a settled clergyman over the Presbyterian church 
there. He was often chosen Moderator of the Provincial Synod. While 
here, about 1688, he married Miss Katherine, daughter of Rev. Rob- 
ert Craighead, who had been minister of Donoughmore, in Donegal, 



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who was translated to Derry in the beginning of the year 1690, and 
continued there until his death, Aug. 22, 171 1. Mr. Craighead was the 
author of books of piety and a religious controversy with Bishop 
King. After several years of service for the church in Strabane, Mr. 
Homes was settled in Raphoe, a town seven miles west of Strabane, 
and about eleven miles southwest of Derry. It is the seat of an Irish 
bishopric. In 1714 he came again to America and revisited Martha's 
Vineyard, at the age of 50. The people of Chilmark, incorporated as a 
town in 17 14, remembered the young man who had previously taught 
anion- thera with satisfaction, and invited him to become their pas- 
tor. Their only pastor previously was Ralph Thacher, who had been 
dismissed the same year with Mr. Homes' return. He discharged 
the duties of ,i pastor faithfully for thirty-one years, having a high 
repute for his piety and as a man of worth and learning. It is said 
that he used to fast twice a week. His salary was ^60 a year. He 
took some care of a farm, but lived mostly on his salary. 

" He was the author of five printed volumes, three of them published 
during his life, and the two after his death were on " Family Prayer " 
and on " Family Government," with a preface to the latter recom- 
mending them by Rev. Drs. Sewall and Prince of Boston. He pre- 
ferred and recommended moderate Presbyterianism iothe evils which 
he thought he saw in the Congregationalism by which he was sur- 
rounded. His name does not often appear on the records of New 
England ecclesiastical history for this reason, and also on account of 
his not being a graduate of Yale or Harvard, and his duties being 
discharged on a secluded island. The revered Experience Mayhew 
in his k Account of the Indian Converts of Martha's Vineyard, 1727,' 
records that one of them, James Spaniard, who died in 172 1, ' at divers 
times desired others to pray with him, particularly the Rev. Mr. William 
Homes.' He died in the year 1746, at the age of eighty-three. He was 
preaching in his pulpit and fell down suddenly in a fit, and gradually 
declined to his death. A marble stone in the graveyard of Chilmark 
marks his burial place. It bears the following inscription: 'In 
memory of the reverend, learned, eminently prudent, and pious Mr. 
William Homes, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Chilmark, who 
departed this life June 17, 1746, ae. 84.' Katherine his wife lies by his 
side. Died 1754, ae. 82. 



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''In the new church which I visited in 1828 was the identical pulpit 
in which he used to preach. I also conversed with the Widow Hil- 
son, 100 years old, who had lived in his family and heard him preach. 
He was a man of such forbearance that while in his native land he 
used to be called " Wm. Homes the Meek,'* to distinguish him from 
another of the same name with himself. On his second arrival he had 
with him three sons and three daughters, viz. : Robert, Margaret, 
Jane, Hannah, John and James. Robert was the master of a sloop 
trading on our coast. He married Mary Franklin, Benjamin Frank- 
lin's youngest sister, in Boston, and was a member of the old North 
church in Boston. He is several times mentioned in Franklin's auto- 
biography. His son William was my great-grandfather. 

"Hannah was never married. She was remarkable as a peacemaker. 
The memory of the good works and alms deeds which she did is still 
fragrant among the people. A negro said he could not swear if he 
were sitting in her chair. E. P. remembers hearing Mrs. Butler, sister 
of Mr. W. A. Hallock's mother, say of Miss Hannah Homes, that 
when she took the Bible to read, all the children who were near would 
keep still, such was their reverence for her piety. She died at the 
house of one of the Aliens in 1794, aged 90. The diary of Wm. 
Homes was in her custody until she came to live at Mr. Allen's in 
1789. Margaret married Col. Jonathan Allen of Chilmark. They 
had children : Jane Homes married Sylvanus Allen. John died on 
the island, unmarried, about 32 years old, in 1732. In the graveyard 
at Chilmark is the following epitaph : 'In memory of Margaret 
(Homes) Allen, wife of Col. Jonathan Allen, who after a life of piety 
exchanged this world for immortality 1763. Ae. 67.' In a graveyard 
at Barnstable are inscriptions of the ' Homes Aliens.' Holmes Hole 
received its appellation as early as 1644, and consequently has noth- 
ing to do with the memory of W. Homes. A portion of the diary of 
W. Homes is now in the archives of the Maine Historical Society. 
It extends in broken periods from 1688 to 17 17. It embraces daily 
occurrences, including his religious experience. It covers 22 pages 
large letter paper, closely written in small hand. 



CHAPTER XI. 



ALLEN-BUTLER-HAWKS PEDIGREE. 



i. Nicholas Butler, of Dorchester, Mass., came with his wife, 
Josic. and three children from Eastwell, Kent county, England. He 
removed to Martha's Vineyard in 165 1. 

2. His son John married Mary . He died July, 1658, having 

four sons, from whom are descended all the Butlers of the Vineyard. 

3. His son John married Priscilla Norton. 

4. John had son Samuel. 

5. His son, Samuel 2d, born in Edgartown Dec. 25, 1727, died in 
Providence, R. I., June 29, 1814, aged 85 ; married Mary Athearn, born 
Sept. 16. 1731. died in Providence, Jan., 1819, aged 88. She was the 
daughter of Jethro and Mary Athearn. 

6. Athearn Butler, born M. V. July 21, 1763, died May 6, 1814 ; mar- 
ried, Oct. 2, 1788, Desire Allen, born M. V. Nov. 7, 1767, died Jan. 13, 
TS43. at Williamsburg, to which place they had moved. They had 
seven children, Clarissa, Sophia, Desire, Cordelia, Mary, Ann, and 
Caroline. Clarissa, born July 24, 1789, died Nov. 3, 1814, was the 
first wife of 

7. Calvin B. Hawks, son of Jared, born Charlemont March 19, 1784, 
and died in Shelburne Falls Jan. 24, 1S74. They were married Feb. 
26, 1S11, and had children 



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8. (,) Athearn Butler, born March 30, ,8,j, moved to Americus 
Georgia, and d,ed in that plaee Dee. ,3, ,864, leaving a wTdow 
and three sons: „ Elizabeth Fales, born Charlemont Feb „ T 
d,ed ,n Buckland Jnne 6, ,850 ; married William Stearns Sept 6 

une8?8 ,' " Ifj 5 ' t daUglUer b ° rntolhera at Williamsburg! 
June 8, .843, named Cynthia Cordelia, died in Northampton July 8 
.906 Clanssa's sister, Cordelia, was the second wife of Calvin b' 
Hawks ; carried Sept. ,8, ,8ao. She was born Dec. , 2 , ,8o 3 , died 
Dec. , 5 , 842. Had sons. Theron Holbrook and Sereno Dwight 
■ n h e i r s°8 n ;th° r n Chariemont Oct. ,4, ,8 3I , i, now living in Spring^ 
n his 85th year He married, June 5, ,855, Mary Oakes Hoadlev 
born New York city Nov. „, ,830, daughter of David Hoad L •' 

railroad. Her mother was Mary Hotchkiss. They had sons 

9- Winthrop Butler and Theron Holbrook, Jr., and daughters 
Mary Hoadlev, Elizabeth Sprague, and Eleanor Russell. Mar, H 
born May,*, .856 married Oscar Howard Mitchell, who was born 
bornO^ a ", M^ch 29, ,889. Had children, Elizabeths., 

born Oct ,5, ,859, smgle ; Eleanor R., born Nov. 8, ,865 : Theron 
S born Nov. ,o, ,883 ; Howard H., born Jan. ,4, ,885. and Arthur 
Knox born June , 9 , ,8S 7 . Eleanor married, Jan. , 4 , ,8 9 ,, William 
G.^Schauffer, »,. d., and died Dec. 23, ,&,,, at Beirut, Syria, leaving 

10. W. G. Schauffer, Jr., born Nov. 24, 1891. 

Theron H ad., born Feb. 1, ,862, at Cleveland. O., married Flor- 

0,h , "c' ° £ Marietta • b ° m Jan ' 2 *' '^6: have children, Russell 
Curbs born Sept. ,4, i88 9 ,died Aug. ,o, ,8 9 o, at Duluth ; Theron H. 3d 

luth Z tk 92 '. and R0 " in CUrtiS ' b0rn Ma >' *• ' S 9S, both at D„I 
luth. Rev.Theron's son, Winthrop Butler, born April,, ,8,8 at 

nlrrldT 8 ' ^^ ^ <**< * Co, ° rado ^ Kmia 
married Benjamm Wh„e : she was born in Williamsburg May 6 

•7-, d,ed Jan. 24, ,8 74 Desire married Ira Atkins ; she was born 

Eras ,!; T, " A ^ b0m ° eC - 26 ' lS -' 6 ' died '867, married 

Erastus Bodman, son of Deacon Bodman, brother to Luther. [The 

Bodmans of Northampton and Chicago were sons of Luther of Wil- 
liamsburg. As they are dead, his connection with the Allen-Butler 






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line has left little or no influence.] Caroline married Rev. Win. 
Adams, born Williamsburg Sept. 28, 1808, died Sept. 18, 1830. 

All the Hawkeses (Hawkses) are direct descendants of the original 
John and Adam Hawks, and perhaps a third brother, who came over 
to America in the ship " Elizabeth," in 1634 from Ipswich, England, 
near the border of Wales, and landed in Boston. Adam located in 
Saugus, Mass., and "John joined the Connecticut colony at Hartford 
or Windsor. From there John moved up the Connecticut river valley 
to Hadley, Mass., and was one of the original forty settlers on West 
Street in 1659. He had sons Jared and Eleazar, who passed up into 
the Deerfield valley and located at Charlemont, where they built a 
stockade around their houses on the crest of a knoll, erecting what is 
known to this day as " Hawks' Fort." Eleazer was the grandfather 
of William Hawks of Deerfield, whose son, William Jr., was father of 
linos and William 3d. Enos married in 1866, and had daughter Alice, 
born July 21, 1872, and died Aug. 30, 1897, and sons Clarence E., now 
of Hadley, who is widely known as the " blind poet of New England," 
and author of several very popular nature study books and collections 
of poems; Enos, of Providence, R. I.; Ernest, of Denver, Col., and 
Arthur, of Gardner, Mass. 

Rev. Theron H. Hawks, D. D., now in his 86th year, furnishes what 
follows regarding the early Deerfield settlement, which may not be 
new, but is interesting. The syncopated history herewith presented 
would be incomplete without it : 

•• I shall be glad to know where the first Eleazer appears in con- 
nection with the Hawks line. I placed him in the second generation 
as a son of the first John of Windsor and a brother of the second 
John, and as a distinguished leader in the migration from Hadley to 
Deerfield, having a son of the same name, and being a grandfather of 
a third of the name, all of whom were settlers in Deerfield ; from the 
third of whom three sons settled in Charlemont, and later, one of 
these returned to Deerfield. A fourth of the name removed from 
Charlemont to Bennington, Vt., and a fifth was a brother of Calvin." 

Rev. Roswell C. Hawks, son of Jared 2d, the son of Jared of 
Deerfield, and a younger brother of Calvin B., was a fellow-worker 
with Mary Lyon in founding Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, and 
its president in 1S51. He had four daughters and two sons : Edward 



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was drowned in North Carolina; Capt. Henry F., served in the civil 
war, and afterwards moved to Chicago, and then to Mexico, where 
he engaged in mining. Dr. William H., son of Philo Hawks of Char- 
lemont, practiced in Washington, D. C, and died there March, 1904, 
aged 59, as a physician of note. 

Robert Allen 2d, of M. V., was a brother of Margaret Allen, wife 
of Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, and brother of Ezra Allen of 
M. V., (whose daughter Eliza married Gerard Hallock, of New York) 
and also of Desire Allen, who married Athearn Butler, whose daughters 
Clarissa and Cordelia, were the two wives of Calvin B. Hawks, father 
of Rev. Theron Hawks. Desire Allen's father was Robert Allen 3d, 
born in Somerset, Vt., who married Amarett Sperry, born in Russell, 
Mass., where their daughter, Sarah A., married Edgar S. Sweatland. 

(See Allen Pedigree.) 

The 250th anniversary of the settlement of Adam Hawks in this 
country was celebrated at the original Hawks homestead in Saugus 
in the year 18S0. 




THE HAYDEN MANSION, 

Haydenville, Mass. 



CH AFTER XII . 



THE HALLOCK-HAYDEN LINEAGE. 



6. William Hallock, Noah's son, born 1730, at Brookhaven, L. I.,. 
married Alice Homan of Chilmark, M. V., and moved to Goshen, 
Mass., in 1766; died Oct. 21, 1815 : his wife in 1816; both buried in 
Goshen. They had nine children, of whom Jeremiah, Moses, Polly, 
Alice, and Bethiah were born at Brookhaven, and Abigail, Martha, 
Esther, and Mercy at Goshen. Goshen was settled in 1761. Esther 
married Rev. Josiah Hayden of Cummington, Mass., in March, 1793. 
She was born 1769, died Sept. 11, 1862, aged 93. Josiah had sons 
Josiah, Joel, Peter, and Cotton. Joel was Lieut.-Governor of Massa- 
chusetts in 1863-5. He had four sons : Thomas, Frederic, who died 
in Switzerland, Joel, and Samuel, deceased ; and four daughters : 
Jeanette, Anna, Isabella, and Ella, all of. whom married persons of 
distinction. Josiah had seven sons: Josiah Bowen, William Hal- 
lock, Joseph Lewis, David Mason, George Wells, James Tibbals, and 
Charles Rowley. James T. lives in Chicago. He is the sole survivor 
of the seven. Josiah had two daughters : Miss Anna, who now occu- 
pies the Haydenville mansion, and Helen, who married Lucius C. 
Bailey of Buffalo. Of their two children, Hayden Gordon lives in 
England, is married, and has no children; Lillian married in 1881 
George Henshal, the eminent musical composer; died in 1901, leav- 
ing one daughter, Helen, who is married and lives in London, Eng.. 



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William Hallock Hayden had four sons, of whom two survive — Wil- 
liam Hallock and Edward Parker. Peter died in New York city in 
the early 8o's. He had sons William B. and Charles, living in New 
York, and Albert of Chicago ; and daughters Flora, who married Ar- 
thur Boyd of Auburn, N. Y., and Kitty, single, also of Auburn. 

The Haydens are descendants of John Hayden, of Cadhay House, 
of Ottery St. Mary, near Exeter, England, which was built in 1660 in 
the Elizabethan style, and still stands, near the old church of Ottery 
St. Mary, in whose crypts seventeen Haydens are buried. This 
church is a copy in miniature of the famous Exeter church. John 
was evidently its warden at one time, as the key still in use has his 
name stamped on it. One of the memorial tablets bears the effigy of 
a Crusader. In Hervor Castle, near by, now owned by an American, 
but once the home of Anna Boleyn, friend of Edward VIII, there is 
a quartering of the Hayden arms, with the armorial bearings of the 
Boleyns. This same John, who was a favorite with the King, came 
to America in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, Mass., where he was 
conspicuous as one of the founders of the Bay Colony. His posterity 
have not dishonered his name. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE STARBUCK PEDIGREE 



[Crossed with the Aliens and Coffins.] 

Edward Starbuck, born Derbyshire, England, 1604, died June 
12. 1690, Nantucket, Mass., married Catherine Reynolds of Wales. 
Children : 

Nathaniel 1st, born 1636, died June 6, 1719, married 1661 Mary 
Coffin, born Feb. 20, 1645, died Sept. 13, 1717. 

Dorcas-married Wm. Gayer, died 1696. 

Sarah married Wm. Story, Joseph Austin, and Humphrey Varney. 

Abigail married Peter Coffin, son of Tristram and Dionis. 

Esther. 

Jethro, born , died May 27, 1663. 

Children of Nathaniel 1st and Mary Coffin : 

Mary Jane, born 1663, died 1696, married Jas. Gardner, son of 
Richard and Sarah. 

Elizabeth, born Sept. 9, 1665, married Peter Coffin, son of Peter 
and Abigail : also married Nathaniel Barnard. 

Nathaniel 2d, born August 9, 1668, died Jan. 29, 1753, married 
Dianah Coffin, daughter of James and Mary. 

Jethro, born Dec. 14, 1671, died Aug. 12, 1770, married Dorcas 
Gayer, daughter of William and Dorcas, 1694. 



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Eunice, born April i, 1674, died Dec. 2, 1766, married George Gard- 
ner, son of John and Priscilla. 

Priscilla, born , died March 14, 1762, married John Coleman, 

son of John and Joanna. 

Hepsebeth, born April 2, 1680, died Feb. 7, 1740, married Thomas 
Hathaway of Dartmouth, Mass. 

Barnabas, born , died Sept. 21, 1732. 

Ann died young. 

Paul. 

Jethro, born Dec. 14, 1671, died Aug. 12, 1770, married Oct. 6, 
1694, Dorcas Gayer, born 1675, died Oct. 11, 1747. Children : 

Sarah, born 1697, died 1789, married John Macy, son of John and 
'Deborah. 

William, born 1699, died 1760, married Ann Folger, daughter of 
Peter; also Lydia Coleman. 

Eunice, born 1701, died Nov. 9, 1745, married Daniel Pinkham, son 
of Richard and Mary. 

Lydia, born 1704, died 1751, married Benjamin Barney of Rhode 
Island. 

Thomas, born Oct. 12, 1706, died June 5, 1777, married Rachel Al- 
len, daughter of Edward and Ann. 

Dorcas, born Feb. 13, 17 10, died Oct. — , 1710. 

Joanna, born 17 12, married Sylvanus Allen, son of Edward and 
Ann. 

Mary, born 1715, died 1780, married Richard Mitchell of Rhode 
Island. 

Thomas Sr., born Oct. 12. 1706, died Jan. 5, 1777. married Aug., 
1726, among Friends, Rachel Allen, born Jan. 3, 1709. died May 30, 
1789. Children: 

Sylvanus, born Aug. 27, 1827, died May 17, 1813, married Mary 
Howes, daughter of Thomas and Abigail. 

William, born May 8, 1732, died June 3, 1812, married Mary Folger, 
^daughter of Daniel and Abigail. 

Rachel, born April 20, 1735, died 1775, married Paul Gardner, son 
of Solomon and Anna. 

Elizabeth, born June 24, 1738, died Sept. 9,1821, married Walter 
.Folger, son of Barzilla and Phoebe. 



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Thomas Jr., born Oct. 2, 1742, died Dec. 13, 1830, married Dinah 
Trott, as below. 

Caver, born Sept. 9, 1744, married Rachel Folger, daughter of 
Peter and Christina. 

Hezikiah, born Feb. 10, 1749, died 1830, married Mary Thurston; 
also Judith Macy. 

THOMAS Jr., born Oct. 22, 1742, died Dec. 13, 1830, married among 
Friends, Oct., 1761, Dinah Trott, born Sept. 5, 1743, died April 19, 
1824. Children : 

Reuben, born Dec. 13, 1762, died Oct. 24, 1801, married (1) Deborah 
Folger, and (2) Anna Folger. 

Simeon, born Feb. 16, 1765, died Oct. 19, 1850, married Judith Fol- 
ger : also. Tamar Myrick, widow. 

Rachel, born Sept. 22, 1767, died April 8. 1849, married Alex. Swain. 

Levi, born Oct. 9, 1769, died Aug. 20, 1849, married Eliz. Ramsdell. 

Judah, born 177 1, died 1792. 

Joseph, born Feb. 27. 1774, died March 9, 1861, married Sally 
Gardner. 

B njamin. born Dec. 28, 1776. died Oct. 1, 1851, married Hepsebeth 
Coffin. 

Dinah, born May 12, 17S1, died Oct. 21, 1848. 

Elizabeth, born Feb. 14, 1783, died June, 1862. 



ANNOTATION. 



WAS PETER HALLOCK A MYTH? 

" Mrs. Elizabeth Hallock Corwin, great-granddaughter of Peter 
Hallock, who outlived her generation and died at 99, as by her grave- 
stone in Old Aquebogue, was enamoured of her ancestry, and de- 
lighted to hand over the facts of their early settlement of Long Island 
to her descendants. She almost weekly visited the old homestead of 
her great-grandfather Peter, of her grandfather William, and her 
father Peter Jr. She said : 'My great-grandfather told his wife in 
England [see page 390] that if she would come over with him, her 
only son (Howell) should share with his own son (William), and so he 
did : the farm which he gave her son Howell laid right alongside of 
his own son's. When the ship came to the shore in Southold, the 
passengers did not dare to land for fear of the Indians, but Peter 
Hallock was a strong man and a bold man, and he stepped ashore 
first. So the place was called Hallock "s Neck.' " — Hallock Ancestry, 
1866. 

Reading between these lines the inference is direct that Peter had 
already visited America at some previous date ; that he came over 
alone, and had a farm located at Southold ; that following his wife's 
consent to his proposition in equity, the return voyage was under- 
taken in some chance vessel that was up for America, and that he 
was put ashore at a point familiar to him, which has since been known 
as Hallock's Neck. 

In a direct genealogical line from this witness, whose testimony 
seems to be " very straight goods,*' we have the following statement 
from her great-granddaughter, Mrs. Mary E. Benedict, whose father, 
Samuel Baldwin Corwin, was a son of Ezra Corwin, the third son of 
Silas Corwin and Elizabeth Hallock, who were married Jan. 13, 1753. 



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The husband was bom in 1 73 1 and died March 1, 1806; the wife in 
Sept.. 1 73 1 . and died Feb. 12, 1831. They left nine children : Silas, 
Amlah, Ezra, Mary, Peter, Jabez, Elizabeth, Daniel, and Ebenezer. 
Mrs. Benedict goes on to say : 

•• My grandfather, Ezra Corwin, moved from Long: Island to Orange 
1 ounty, New York, in 1S00. He was given at that time a cane, which 
Petei Hallock handed down to the oldest son of each generation, 
with the instrui tion that their names-should be marked on the cane. 
When given to Grandfather Corwin it passed out of the Hallock 
family, and had the following four names on it: Peter Hallock, Peter 
Hallock, \\'m. Hallock, Wm. Hallock. With the cane was also to be 
handed down the association that he was the first white man to. step 
t on the east end of Long Island. That he came from England 
and landed on the east end of Long Island at a point he named Hal- 
lock's Neck. He bought land from the Indians ami remained two 
us. At the end of two years he returned to England and remained 
twelve years, then he returned and landed at Southold in 1640, with a 
wife and one child. I calculate from the lapse of time that he landed 
in this country first in 1626. 

" In 1809 my grandfather moved to what is now known as Blod- 
gett's Mills. Cortland county, New York, with his family, my father 
being one year old. My father remained at home and cared for his 
parents until they died, and he came into possession of the homestead 
and also the cane. In 1847 father rented his two farms, and in June 
took his family to Wisconsin for a visit, and in the early part. of the 
follow ing winter the house on the small farm, , which was back up on 
the hill, and where the most of our household goods were stored, was 
burned, and with it the cane which father valued so highly. He often 
used to say that he had intended to take it to Albany and place it in 
the care of the Historical Society. I learned from an uncfe since my 
father's death that it had a gold head with a sperm whale's tooth on 
the top." 

With regard to this relation of Mrs. Benedict, the Rev. Epher 
Whittaker, whose skepticism regarding the initial history of the 
I lallocks on Long Island is set forth in pp. 26 to 36 of his " History 
of Southold," published twenty-five years ago, has only to say that 
" legends above a century away from the transactions which they 
narrate have little value," and adds that he " would like to see a con- 
temporary document giving proof of William Hallock's father ever 
having been in America," though he has " no hope of seeing any such 
document." Later on, writing from Southold, he says more decidedly : 

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" There is not a particle of evidence to be found that Peter Hallock 
was ever here. The story of the ' thirteen men ' coming together with 
the Rev. John Youngs, the Hallock landing, and the naming of Hal- 
lock's Neck is untrue. The thirteen men of the story [whose names 
are given] included men of different generations. Some of them 
were scarcely born when others of them came here. It is perfectly 
certain that they never came together here." 

Now from Mrs. Benedict's point of view, Rev. Whittaker is quite 
right about Peter not being one of a company of thirteen. Indeed, 
according to her testimony, he could not have been, for he came in 
1626, and they not until 1640. He came as an adventurer, or argo- 
naut, to investigate and invest, if there seemed to be a desirable 
opening, as Hampden did in Virginia about the same time. This 
was before the period of keen surveillance which distressed departing 
emigrants later on, when passenger lists were scrutinized and ships em- 
bargoed, as in the case of the "Pilgrims" and "Puritans," when whole 
parishes with their ministers would attempt to sail together. These sobri- 
quets had not passed into current vogue when Peter Hallock, or Hol- 
yoke, made his first voyage, and he probably shipped as an individual 
and inconsequential voyager of the period. That he was a man of con- 
siderable means is shown by his son William's tax bill in 1675, which 
is given as ,£361, equal to $1805, representing a large property for 
those fallow times. It may be questioned whether he was a Puritan 
at all, or a Pilgrim fier se, although his posterity are mentioned as 
" godly people, all well-to-do, going barefoot in summer, and eating with 
silver spoons." All of which facts tally with the hypothesis of Hol- 
yoke antecedents and a gentle extraction. On his second voyage he 
came over in the same ship with Rev. Youngs' New Haven colony, 
but not as a member of it. Anyhow, he* very soon left for Long 
Island to look after his previous land investments, established him- 
self on the " old homestead " beside the widow Howell lot, and — the 
rest is undisputed history. 

For one, I consider these old " legends," as Rev. Whittaker is 
pleased to call them, the best of circumstantial evidence, especially 
when backed by heirlooms and inscriptions like those which Mrs. 
Benedict says were in evidence for more than two centuries, until less 
than fifty years ago ; and I have great respect for tradition as taught 



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by the Hebrews, father to son, from the days of Moses until now, 
and as practiced by the Aborigines of America to this day. 

Furthermore, I consider the frequent repetition of the name Peter 
throughout the earlier generations of the Hallock family as the strong- 
est possible evidence that they had a noted ancestor of that name ; 
as much so as respects the other name, which has passed from gener- 
ation to generation, William. There is also special significance in the 
use of the cane as a pedigree stick or totem staff, employed by nations 
and tribes of all lands from time immemorial, especially in Alaska 
and our Northwest. 






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APOSTROPHE. 



TO A FAR DISTANT FEMALE RELATIVE 



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Thou art so near, and yet so far, 

A brilliant of Creation ! 
Quite like yon distant shining star 

In intimate relation : 
For the wide space which lies between 

May not obscure thy brightness, 
Nor cosmic molecules serve, I ween, 

T'impair the family likeness ? 
So, like the astral Gemini, 

In beaming constellation, 
We'll praise Creator, you and I, 

And joy in our relation. 



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